Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...on the nation's capital and Jackson's presidency, Inskeep makes removal too much the president's story, erasing complexities of antebellum political life. A more significant problem lies in Inskeep's inattention to...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...develop. As Sag's list makes clear, the HathiTrust case represents a major victory for libraries, universities, and the Digital Humanities community. The American Library Association and the Library Copyright Association...
Submission Process
...how Southern Spaces makes sure that we’re sending the highest quality work to peer reviewers. Once authors have received their peer review feedback, we begin the final round of...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...to Virgil. What makes each new iteration of this tradition relevant and vibrant, as exemplified by the photographs in this exhibit, is the ability of artists to fuse new styles,...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
..."Coffee Makes You Black" demonstrate that Kennedy's voice is both witty and insistent, challenging the viewer to reconsider perceptions of black culture, history, and art. A self-described "humble negro printer,"...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...slaves that has most accentuated and dramatized the Ohio River's function as a definitive boundary line between slavery and freedom, and it's through their stories that Salafia makes his case...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...the "anti-civil rights movement" makes three primary claims. First, that southern evangelicals played a mighty role in defending Jim Crow.4See for example, Charles Marsh, God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...makes it difficult to keep track of who is who and what "perspective" they represent. This somewhat disorienting effect left me uncertain, at first, if the editor of The Charleston...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...just one decade. In this context, as Goetz writes: "The dismantling of public housing makes little sense as housing policy" (177). By the end of the twentieth century, public housing...
Local Color
...its core texts embody. Local color fiction stresses isolation and otherness, but also makes, however uneasily, a case for the nation's ability to reconcile and accept divergent regional identities. Local...