Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...States of America," 1794, courtesy of Flickr user Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Adapted by Eric Solomon. Contributors "interrogate new approaches that have broadened the archive and conceptual scope...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...Freezing is rare. Rainfall is about 50 inches (127 centimeters) a year, with the majority of precipitation during the May–September hurricane season. Despite the impact of Hurricane Matthew on October...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...were temporarily suspended. More importantly, the declaration of war would transform the priorities and architecture of epidemiological research in America for decades to come. Just months before Pearl Harbor, Goodwin...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...Ellen Griffith Spears, and Kate Orff. "Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction." Southern Spaces, November 26, 2013. https://southernspaces.org/2013/petrochemical-america-petrochemical-addiction. Hill, Sarah. "Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838." Southern Spaces, August 23, 2012. https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838....
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...Homann, "Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali Britannorum industria excultae . . .," 1715. Via Wikimedia Commons. This next map illustrates the border between the colonies of North Carolina...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
Review Few issues roiled the waters of America and the South more so than temperance reform. In "the Alcoholic Republic"—William Rorabaugh's felicitous phrase—the question of prohibition divided and defined individuals...
The Place of Appalachia
...(insider "good," outsider "bad") too often have tended to substitute for deeper social analysis and political critique.2Helen Matthews Lewis, Linda Johnson, and Donald Askins, eds., Colonialism in Modern America: The...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...Mississippi Choctaw Collection, P12169. Choctaw history is packed with ironies and reads sometimes like an "only in America" tale. After the Civil War, for example, Mississippi's most ardent white supremacists...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...black abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond alongside the image. Taken from an 1862 abolitionist speech, "The Negroes In the United States of America," Remond's quotation illustrates the centrality of slave labor...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...race relations.2See for example, Joe Feagin, Free Enterprise City: Houston in Political Economic Perspective (Camden, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988); Christopher Silver, Twentieth Century Richmond: Planning, Politics, and Race (Knoxville: University...