Stones and Shadows
...the image in relief, old man with scythe, and the quotation: "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." Impossible, grand. The earth is beneath us. The...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...among these creamy freesia women - they all are. They let some men be dark, like the one they call Dark Gable, who could talk that talk the best. The...
Frank Willis
...ate a rat. The summer I was eleven Water- gate was something I watched with my grandmother on TV like the best soap opera but also something she would have...
Prayer of the Backhanded
...best beatings lack Intention, the mark of the beast. Bring back to life the son Who glories in the sin Of immediacy, calling it love. God, save the man whose...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Blassingame, ed., Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977), 467–68. For the best analysis of this instance, see Elizabeth Brown...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...slaveholders exercised outsized influence on the federal government. But at its best this work goes beyond that oft-cited abolitionist charge and details how such influence manifested itself in the workings...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...economy, easily the best among the 102 largest US markets. The city’s success became a model others sought to emulate. Eliot Tretter, quoting Andrew Park, observes in the opening pages of Shadows...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...the best debut novel of the year. Mullen's books are notable for the range and variety of their historical settings and influences. Last Town on Earth is set in a...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...depending on a government's interest or willingness to police or prohibit.2The best examination of this concept I've found is in Eric Monkkonen's history of police, which stands to this day...
DOIs and Altmetrics
...By adopting digital object identifiers (DOIs) and partnering with Altmetric, Southern Spaces continues to model best practices in digital publishing. All Southern Spaces pieces now include DOIs that provide a...