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...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Work of Looking." Figure 6 (Top): Robert, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, September 29, 2014. http://lookingatappalachia.org/south-carolina#/id/i9215392. Figure 7 (Middle): Brothers Ralph and Robert, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, November 4,...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. After over a decade of research and surveying, North Carolina and South Carolina have reached an agreement on the official 335-mile border...
Southern Spaces Recommends
Blog Post Eric Solomon, "Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces" series editor: I've been on a reading streak the past few months. Here are a few I recommend. In terms of...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Desmognathus aeneus Seepage Salamander Desmognathus marmoratus Shovel-nosed Salamander Plethodon teyahalee Southern Appalachian Salamander Desmognathus auriculatus* Southern Dusky Salamander Plethodon metcalfi Southern Gray-cheeked Salamander Plethodon richmondi Southern Ravine Salamander Pseudotriton ruber...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...promoted her debut through advertisements and well-placed references, Adrienne succeeded in gaining the attention of more than ten Boston area newspapers. For the most part, the reviews were glowing. "She...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman A popular tourist attraction in New Orleans today is the "Moonwalk," a brick-paved promenade stretching along the Mississippi riverfront from the Covention...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...sent over 750,000 slaves from the Upper South to the Deep South between 1830 and 1860.5Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003),...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...current research project, Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South (2009), addresses the socio-cultural contexts, processes, and transformations of Latin American migration to the US South since 1965....
Roadside Architecture
...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...