John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...the ability to think, to ascertain available courses of action, and to then act in one's best interest. When that interest runs counter to that of one's captors—who here wanted...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the "peculiar institution" and often prompted observers to come to terms with their own attitudes toward the human cargo they witnessed. It was a trip on the Ohio in 1841...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...concerning the US South and the digital humanities, highlighting relevant Southern Spaces publications. Finally, we regularly feature past publications that speak to contemporary concerns in the "featured" section of our...
DOIs and Altmetrics
Screenshot of Altmetric homepage, June 7, 2016. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. Southern Spaces announces the adoption of several features that support our mission of publishing open access and public-facing scholarship....
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...accepted for publication." MLA Executive Director Rosemary G. Feal suggested that the change might encourage open access to humanities scholarship more broadly. Also, the American Historical Association announced the establishment of...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...a brick wall a hundred years later, I can make out Cuba Libre! and Remember the Maine! I don't remember the Maine, only that a Cuba Libre is made of rum, Coke, and lime....
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...a tradition. We heard blues on Beale Street and took part in lectures and discussions in Oxford, Mississippi, before visiting with racial reconciliation leaders in Jackson and the Delta. Ruth...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...spaces in the D.C. area, and yet was reelected to Congress for his conservative Republican values. Eventually, he was caught again and run out of office. We thought about Aaron...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...A Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 14. He argues that "in Mississippi, spatial configurations—the unique characteristics of a rural landscape—forged distinct human interactions, movements, and sites,"...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynching for the state (6). Discrimination sign, Dimmitt, Texas, 1949. Photograph by Russell Werner Lee. Courtesy of Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. If mobs...