The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...Turner, of H-Southern-Lit, and is a contributing editor for Digital Yoknapatawpha. About the Interviewers This interview was conducted by Southern Spaces staff members Sarah Van Horn Melton and Emma Lirette....
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...construction of materials from numerous sources, has recently been published by Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a program of the University of North Carolina Library System. A coming addition will...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...into a more appropriate and useful channel."2Simpson, "Note to the Public," v–vi. Despite his groundbreaking creativity, Simpson is little known today. Few scholars have written about his work, and he...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Story of Emmett Till (Mound Bayou: Mississippi Regional Council of Negro Leadership, 1956). Mound Bayou continues to exist today, though it grapples with the numerous contemporary challenges facing rural southern...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...coalfields of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia, and east Tennessee. By 1994, the US Department of Energy anticipated a production increase of as much as 24 million tons...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...developed, financed, designed, and constructed by African Americans for African American residents.2See Betsy Riley, "Collier Heights awarded Local Historic district status," Atlanta Magazine, May 16, 2013, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/civilrights/collier-heights-awarded-local-historic-district-status/; U.S. Department of the...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
Video Part 2: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War Part 3: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...History"), changes to voting laws in southern states have been employed by legislators to deny African Americans and other minorities the franchise across the US South. Suitts's piece describes what...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...mix of canonical, mature artists and talented younger photographers. They are all “from” the South, where they have all lived and done important work. But for Wylie, their “southernness” lies...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...the US and Global South is a collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications examining the relationship between public health and specific geographies—both real and imagined—in and across the US and Global South....