Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...contradictory, the image suggests both continuity and change. Eggleston made the photographs on display here in a particular historical movement: after mass activism, the passage of landmark civil rights laws,...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...was arranged when she left this room for the last time in 1964. Andalusia, Spring and Summer 2007 After reading Lawrence Downes' article, "In Search of Flannery O'Connor," in the...
Birth Right
...policies. At the heart of this issue is the question of choice. Current laws deny many healthy women a choice in their birth plans. In Alabama, it is legal for...
Mapping Souths
...points up the illegitimacy of southern secession. (Frederick Law Olmsted employs an identical logic in The Cotton Kingdom of the same year, claiming that "an arbitrary political line may divide...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
Essay For over thirty years, historians in the United States have written about slavery in terms broached by John Blassingame's path-breaking book The Slave Community (1972). Blassingame, George Rawick, Lawrence...
When the Border Crossed Me
...films Faces of Time and Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos, and the book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World (University of Illinois Press, 2011)....
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...and Theresa Lloyd "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford "'The Room that We're Able to Take Up': Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic" by Eric Solomon and Forrest Lawson...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
Bransford: Before we talk about An Unflinching Look: Elegy for Wetlands, can you talk about your personal history with the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge? And then describe the Refuge in...
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