Remnants of Flannery
...Chronicles, largely set in-and-around New Orleans; Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and the 2012 film of the same name, which reimagines slaves as food for vampires and...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...and comparatively small furniture. The light is pale on the clay-colored walls (newly painted in 1959); the floorboards creak underfoot. Most things are just as O'Connor and her mother, Regina,...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...that roars, runs, and barks—for those of you from parts other than rural eastern Oklahoma). One day in his Weleetka High School class, everyone stopped paying attention to the teacher...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Bailey’s grandmother gave him a treasure trove of more than 400 tintypes from a family album dating back to the late 1800s…” in Carol Thompson, ed. Memory as Medicine (New...
DOIs and Altmetrics
...Courtesy of Southern Spaces. The journal is also partnering with Altmetric, a service that tracks user engagement across social media and journalistic outlets. Altmetrics allow authors and readers to track...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker,...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...having populations of 100,000 or more. There were fourteen: Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery in Alabama; Little Rock in Arkansas; Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Shreveport in Louisiana; Jackson...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...lynchings occurred, it was undergoing a process of change into a "New South" city. In the late nineteenth century, the population had grown alongside new factories, mills, and other industrial...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...reconciliation can slow down the peace process" he suggests a new common story for Derry, which has, at least twice, been on the side of human progress. In the 1660s,...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...Claiming he knew about Michigan State long before it knew about him, Lewis elaborated: When we watched games on TV in the '50s, we were always looking for black athletes....