A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...a different way. At the University of Georgia, a mob greeted Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter when they entered in 1961. A year later, two civilians died when James Meredith...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...Natasha Trethewey In these excerpts from an interview conducted in Atlanta, Georgia, on 30 August, 2008, Dan Albergotti talks with Natasha Trethewey about the new internet journal Waccamaw, his experiences growing...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...Atlanta, Georgia, June 14, 1935, the son of William G. Egerton, a traveling salesman, and his wife, Rebecca White Egerton. The family settled in Cadiz, Kentucky, where John remained until...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
...of Georgia in 2010. He won the 2011 C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize from the Southern Historical Association and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...This further reconfigures the popular perception that slavery was a phenomenon only of the US South. When a marker is installed in the Sapelo Bay area in Georgia, it will...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...cities and towns. They are visible in Georgian-style post offices, and in huge train station murals splashed with the autumnal colors of rustic America bringing in the crop. The Great...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
Review In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, clubs in Houston, Dallas, and many other centers of New Orleanian displacement hosted "New Orleans" nights, featuring rap music from the Crescent City....
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...was published on the University of Illinois Press in 2011. Originally from Athens, Georgia, Alexander Stephens is an associate director at the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
Interview Southern Spaces: How did you begin the project that became this remarkable documentary The Joneses? https://vimeo.com/390791326 The Joneses Trailer. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. John Howard: Jheri (at the...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...disingenuous. In the context of the close 2020 presidential elections in Arizona and Georgia, Alito's words signal that unsubstantiated charges of "fraud" are now available in voting rights cases as...