"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...gross indecency" between men. In the United States, sodomy laws were on the books in every state. By Percy's death in 1942, these laws were still in place but a...
Brushes with War
...Reams' Station, Virginia, during the last stage of an arduous cavalry raid. Jameson was shipped to Andersonville Prison, the overcrowded, unsanitary, and disease-ridden POW stockade in southwest Georgia. By August,...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...his compatriots took up arms against the United States in order to preserve a society based on slave labor and white supremacy. Stephanie Batiste-Bentham, an African American interpreter who worked...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana images
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Dry Fountain and Old State Capitol Completed in 1850, this castle-like Gothic Revival structure served as Louisiana's capitol until 1932. Construction Trailer During the summer of...
"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...
Welcome!
Welcome to the Southern Spaces blog. Since our first publication in 2004, Southern Spaces has been invested in peer-reviewed, multi-media, open-access scholarship. Over the past few years, we have redesigned...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...well-researched study of localized expressive art but also provides us with the first true book-length, academically-oriented work on New Orleans rap and bounce to date. In New Orleans, what is...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...(R-Lineville) plan for redistricting the state's thirty-five Senate districts in the wee hours of Thursday morning. State Democrats—none of whom voted for the bill—have suggested that the Department of Justice...
The Border South
...in 1860 stood at the top of the list in the South in its commitment to slavery. It was the largest slaveholding state in the country with the most slaveholders...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
..."Strange Earth: The Stories of Flannery O'Connor." Georgia Review XII (Summer 1958): 216. Although some stories — namely, "The Geranium" and "The Artificial Nigger" — take place in cities such as New...