Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of beautiful suburban homes have been erected...." ("New Houses Erected" Atlanta Constitution (March 8, 1894), p. 8 ) Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895 Published: 15 January 2008...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...an in-depth interview with Trethewey, and eight critical essays. Southern Spaces is happy to have supported the Southern Quarterly by granting permission to include a number of images of Trethewey...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...located east and west of downtown. Although most were common laborers, a small number, perhaps less than ten percent, stood above the masses by virtue of their occupation, education, or...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
Submission Guidelines
...contact the Managing Editor at seditor@emory.edu. Document Formatting Text documents should include a title, an abstract of less than two hundred words, citations in footnotes, and page numbers. Please use...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...of a number of "marked trails" of this era—would join existing local roads into a long-distance highway linking north and south. Not coincidentally, it would connect the metropolitan North with...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...of the Insane in the United States and Canada, vol. 1 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1916). Courtesy of Internet Archives and Yale University. Gonaver's goal is to show...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...blood-sweeten'd beverage —Robert Southey, Poems of the Slave Trade, Sonnet III1Robert Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1839), 110. Nothing expresses more viscerally...