Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...War era nerve agents, drove some residents away. Calhoun and Bean, along with State Representative Barbara Boyd and Jacksonville State University (JSU) Environmental Policy Information Center Director (EPIC) Pete Conroy,...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...within the nation. North/South Lights in Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 10, 2014. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user Travis Wise. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0....
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and Derek H. Alderman, Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory (Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College, 2008); Renee Christine Romano and Leigh Raiford, The Civil Rights...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...and Education Center in Tennessee and Oxfam in Great Britain, for which he received a MacArthur Fellowship and an Order of the British Empire Award. After editing this documentary footage,...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...and legacy of Reginald Shepherd.2This conversation took place at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship on August 6, 2024. Brown previously spoke with Natasha Trethewey for Southern Spaces in 2010....
Good-Bye to All That?
...Forest Precinct, Transylvania County, North Carolina, 2014. Chart by Southern Spaces. Although the latest election, like that of 2010, was a disaster for Democrats, the political center had been shifting...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...County, Kentucky, adversely affected seventy-five miles of streams in Kentucky and West Virginia.6Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC), Wheeling Jesuit University, West Virginia University and the National Energy...