Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...one by writing appropriate narration, using an upbeat midwestern voice, and adding music. We created our own newsreel company with logo. Complaining that you cannot create artifacts, some historians have...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...appropriate, by external subject matter experts. View selected blog post examples below: Solomon, Eric. "Love and Death in Mississippi." Southern Spaces, August 16, 2018. https://southernspaces.org/2018/love-and-death-mississippi/. Suitts, Steve. "States' Rights Resurgent:...
Bodies and Souls
...healthcare. I learned about common barriers to receiving healthcare and the importance of intervention when looking at large-scale results. While my approach to social justice had once been ideological, now...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Collier Heights Historic District Application, NPS Form 10-900,OMB No. 1024-0018, received by NPS May 15, 2009, http://www.nps.gov/nr/publications/sample_nominations/CollierHeightsHD.pdf. Map of...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...quilt during this time. A distinctive imitation-cross-stitch fabric used to fill in between the points of the star to make a circle also appears in both Rosa's Log Cabin and...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...the printed fabrics in Rosa's Log Cabin also appear in Nannie's Cross quilt, which also relies on a light/dark contrast to show off its pattern. Mother and daughters seem to...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...today's Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—were central to early American knowledge production. At first glance the image appears to be a familiar allegory of Europe's conquest of the Americas. It...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...creators of any orientation whose work addresses the lives of LGBTQ+ persons and/or applies queer and feminist theory to various topics. We encourage a diversity of methods and theoretical approaches....
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016), 3–4, 11–13. In a longer history, Cherokees arrived in the southern Appalachians about four-thousand years ago, having...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...in here. More than abstract appreciation, you experience Key West's "One Human Family" philosophy in action. The next day you awake in your bungalow, refreshed. You walk across the mile-wide...