The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...suburb of Lakeview and virtually all of New Orleans East undeveloped at that time, the population density was double that of today. The city's wharves extended upriver from beyond the...
A Mess of Poke
...Times on August 14, 2011, which features Kelly Callahan, a resident of East Atlanta, who began foraging on the abandoned lots of vacant, bank-owned properties in her area. Gardens planted...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...coming from the east and you have the sea level rise coming from the west. Those two are coming together in the same place and having this devastating effect. Dimmitt:...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...General William Richardson Davie's tomb dominates this Davie memorial. It stands at the east side, at the end of a path from the entrance on the west. The stones of...
Quilting Conversation
...Museum of Art. She previously worked as an arts journalist in New York and received her PhD from the department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University,...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...'listening to the cries of the dying man'" (27). Anxious to leave Cameron, but reluctant to return to Marshall where lynchers had recently killed four blacks, Nixon went west and...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...for a list of previous Southern Spaces publications that exemplify the range of interdisciplinary work we seek. As part of this series, we will publish peer-reviewed digital projects. Please contact us if...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Illustrated. In his first dispatch, Blount considers the city's homeless population in relation to Five Points, "an area that lies just to the southeast of the Olympic Center but squarely...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...the words of art historian Christopher Reed, to leave a "queer mark on the physical environment." They also map a move from figurative representation, through post-minimalist gestures, to shifting moments...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...