Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
..."America's Most Historic City" featured an elderly black man on its cover, hat in hand, opening a wrought-iron gate accompanied by text that omitted any mention of enslaved people; and...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...full projects Send submissions and direct all inquiries to: Series editor Eric Solomon (seditor@emory.edu) Top, Opening title sequence from television documentary "The Rejected." Originally aired by KQED, San Francisco, California,...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...Southern Spaces, an open access, multimedia, peer-reviewed journal, invites innovative scholarship on regions, places, and cultures of the US South as well as their global connections. We encourage interdisciplinary submissions...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...the Atlanta Metropolitan Area detailing Collier Heights. Map courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user keizers and Open Street Map. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.5. As of 2016, Collier Heights is...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...in a historical and social context. As new and larger oil fields have opened up elsewhere, the Gulf Coast's situation has shifted to face global realities. Theriot frames land loss...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...“Georgia Harmonies: Celebrating Georgia Roots Music” opened at the Harris Arts Center in Calhoun, Georgia. The first of a dozen stops in Georgia of “New Harmonies” (a project of the...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...be lifted, revealing a charred Bible nestled in its core. The experience of opening the church sculpture is akin to that of opening a treasure chest: awe, disbelief and a...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
Review Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism opens with an arresting photographic image: nineteenth-century local colorist Mary Noailles Murfree, author of In the Tennessee Mountains, a collection of purportedly "authentic" sketches, sits...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...of its sins. Its new complex of Mississippi history museums, set to open in 2017, will prominently feature the Magnolia State's ferocious resistance to the civil rights movement. A peculiar...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...humor, the southwestern humorists of antebellum times displaced the traditional gentleman, supplanting him not with a counter-ideal but with rugged, sometimes openly anarchist anti-heroes. If we follow the development of...