I-26, Corridor of Change
...changes. (November 8, 2000. Approx. 1 1/2 hours. Streaming audio and transcription of interview. Source: Documenting the American South, Southern Oral History Program, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...(3). John Adams Whipple, Louis Agassiz, January, 1865. With great thoroughness, Sex, Sickness, and Slavery documents how physicians eagerly brought the evidence of medical science to the aid of the...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Image Credits
...Suit, Faceless Man. Painting by Sandy Solomon. 1950 Toni Home Perm Advert, April 5, 2011. Photograph by Flickr user Tiffany Terry. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Batesville Casket Company...
Making History
...pull out spoon after spoon after spoon. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...somewhere a maiden rattled in her chains. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...
The Crowd He Becomes
...view, maybe shadowed in a doorway, japing in a storefront window, listening at a sandwich stand while everyone is talking, his work on every tongue. Maybe he could drift through...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...eds. Emily Abel and Margaret K. Nelson (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), 40. Historically, Appalachian women had tended to the broken bodies of miners and industrial workers,...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...bread made of musty pea-flour" (110). Ignominy as much as starvation precipitated surrender. Top, "Submarine Torpedo Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863," Charleston, South Carolina, 1864. Oil on panel by Conrad Wise...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...white. African Americans and whites still congregate separately in the newly integrated Lake Meer, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia, June 12, 1963. Photograph by Ken Patterson. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic...