Whiskey and Geography
...the struggling American government by taxing whiskey, the plan met with open revolt. Farmers who had fought against the British, specifically against taxation without representation, wanted nothing to do with...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
Call for Blog Posts Southern Spaces is an open access, multimedia, peer-reviewed journal publishing innovative scholarship on regions, places, and cultures of the US South as well as their global...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...perfectly flat. We slowly got into brackish areas and then went into big, open, less fresh, more salty, but still brackish bays. And that's as far as we got. Then we...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...a large open airy room with a faded blue rug and white curtains freshly put up for his arrival. He looked at nothing, but fell face down on his own...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...know of only one white-authored account. The June 4, 1893, Atlanta Constitution reports that a Mr. W.D. Boggus of Covington has a number of curiosities on display in his place...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...War. Its opening scene is also revolutionary in a gendered way: it shows us the remarkable widow, Mrs. Eveleigh, taking on a British naval officer in his cabin in order...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...deceased. Because the memorials are located in open, public spaces, the adorning accessories change with time. Items may be added or vanish. Silk flowers fade and discolor. Plush toys become...
In the Magic City
...a space that quotes the ridges and their empty veins, old Sloss filling up with fire or Cherry's heat opening 16th Street into the space Coltrane fills ...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...of Rob Amberg. Truck Driving West on the newly opened Tennessee side of I-26 at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. On the highway and...