You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...zero for understanding working-class support for a billionaire who claimed to care about the "forgotten people" of America. This signposting allowed for an evasion of any deep analysis of racism...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...women's hard-won emancipation, expanding political consciousness, and support by an occupying federal military force. Briefly in the postbellum years, this alternative history achieved preeminence in Charleston's local reckoning with slavery....
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...coincidence, except that the mob did not simply shoot Potter where it found him. The lynchers evidently saw the dramatic potential of their violence; even without a crowd of supporters...
Fort Scott newspapers
...drunken desperado, who was and had been endangering the life of any one he came in contact with. When the testimony is given under oath in the preliminary examination, this...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...as opposed to "aberrant behaviors" the animals learn from contact with humans. Coyote Meeting, Druid Hills Civic Association, Church of the Epiphany, Atlanta, Georgia, January 29, 2013. From the outset...
History: The Parlor
...Nannie would have had frequent contact with their Benson and Snoddy relatives living in the area, and they probably pieced quilts, embroidered, crocheted, or knitted while visiting family and friends....
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...open conversation. Please include audio-video requirements in your proposal. Send your proposals via email to ecds@emory.edu by 5:00 p.m. on January 17, 2014. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any questions....
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...and illness make on her husband Larry’s body and the flaws in the contact prints made from wet-plate collodion negatives, a nineteenth-century processing method. This doubled subject matter highlights the...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...materials, botanical texts, medical texts, engravings, and drawings. Allewaert's ultimate purpose is to theorize the complex, shifting, and fluid personhood born of slavery, colonialism, and post-colonial contact in the American...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...for a list of previous Southern Spaces publications that exemplify the range of interdisciplinary work we seek. As part of this series, we will publish peer-reviewed digital projects. Please contact us if...