A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...of Virginia's forward-looking heroes, claiming that Lee "marched onward, not backward." Glasgow's Lee was quickly forgotten, as was her larger quest to see the past as a dynamic force, not...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
Birdhouses
...change. Inspired, I walked across the yard and photographed a periscope-looking house emerging from an apparent wilderness, then back toward the unfamiliar new pond. As many times as I had...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...Mississippi River as an icon for the twentieth-century South. We are looking for scholarly articles, archival documents, and interviews (but no poetry) on the symbolic importance of the river for...
Darkly
...they'd found the one they were looking for. They'd still disappear, like the bridge, and be forgotten by the water. They'd still come, each one, to that morning at the...
St. Thomas Church Supper near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 7, 1940
...African American and white men are cooking together, and wanted to know more about what was happening in this integrated outdoor kitchen. Looking at the curated series, where the white...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Surveillance, and Criminalization; 2) Community Development, Representation, and Advocacy; 3) Fighting for Their Rights, Fighting for Their Lives; 4) Gateway to the Americas; and 5) Looking Ahead. For the first...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...became more entrepreneurial in attracting investment and generating revenues.5David Harvey, “From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism,” Geografiska Annaler B 71.1 (1989): 3–17. Texas, looking to...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...daughter. "He was more like his father than any of [the other] children. [His] thing is, 'I don't want you to sell any of my land. Ever.' And I'm looking...
Little Ivy, North Carolina
...Little Ivy Church Cemetery, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Burn piles at the site of the Little Ivy Church Cemetery looking East on US 19, Mars...