Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...that leads to the arrest and prosecution of the killers. If you have information of the lynchings, please contact: The GBI – 404-244-2600 or the FBI – 404-679-9000. For more...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...lynchings occurred, it was undergoing a process of change into a "New South" city. In the late nineteenth century, the population had grown alongside new factories, mills, and other industrial...
Finding Media
Finding media is a big issue for us here at Southern Spaces. We’re constantly searching for new photographers to highlight in our Featured Images section, and we’re often tasked with...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
...of spatial perspectives into the study of nineteenth-century US health and economics history. Kennedy is the lead investigator of the New Orleans Mortality Project, and from 2012 to 2015 he...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...the other way to west, to wilderness, to where the future waits to open out its shining promise, destiny. Backwater meant new water then, where greatness waited, tilted toward the...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...to their bank-robbing exploits. Even his novel The Revisionists (2011), although set in a dystopian future, examines historical agency. Mullen's newest book, Darktown (2016), is set in the racially polarized,...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...a Man he doesn't locate new venues for the blues, or new and original song writing. Instead, he assembles an impressive array of established artists to perform old tunes by...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...