Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Birmingham News, and the Louisville Courier, to investigate case after case of racial injustice in the South and the nation. Her 1948 marriage to Carl Braden, the son of recent...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...
Geography
...years: he’s smaller, his voice lost in the distance between us. 3. On the Gulf and Ship Island Line my father and I walk the rails south toward town....
Elegy for the Native Guards
...split in half when Hurricane Camille hit, shows us casemates, cannons, the store that sells souvenirs, tokens of history long buried. The Daughters of the Confederacy has placed a plaque...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...who are not employed in heavy industry, but in the work of caring: health care support, education, and social services. Conceptions of "workers" that exclude and marginalize caregiving, or cast...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...behind (22). Calhoun Monument, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1915–1930. Postcard by unknown creator. Courtesy of Daniel A. Pollock. Charleston's antebellum history as the capital of a slave society and a...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Uncle Ben's came down to bid on. It, mostly white, too. Soybeans came. And corn. More than you could haul. Then catfish; out of the muddy river and into the...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...scholarship on canonical author Flannery O'Connor embodies this approach. Students can examine a photo essay of Andalusia (the farm near Milledgeville, Georgia, where O'Connor spent the last thirteen years of...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...In Jacksonland, Inskeep offers the book-length equivalent of his op-ed. He narrates Cherokee Removal through the lives and careers of Jackson and Ross, presenting parallel biographies. He charts Jackson's rise from...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...of the lynching.12Laura Wexler, Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America (New York: Scribner, 2003). As the roughly sixty-car caravan wound its way, taillights blinking, it appeared...