"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
Presentation Part 1: Tom Rankin introduces the life and work of Paul Kwilecki and his relationship to Decatur County, Georgia. Part 2: Rankin discusses the evolution of Kwilecki's photographic style...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
Review: Something magical is on display in a tiny gallery at the University of Virginia Art Museum, a small selection of photographs that play off each other like the ingredients...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
..."The Civil Divide," The Anniston Star, August 20, 2006. Such Confederate memorials represent a particular slap at the Freedom Riders memorial plans, as The Anniston Star editors wrote in 2005,...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the secession crisis. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, Great Britain, August 28, 1833. Courtesy of the Freedom City virtual archive, Toronto Public Library. For...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, 2018). Courtesy of Willena Scott-White. Bottom, Soybean field, Crittenden County, Arkansas, August 3, 2013. Photograph by Thomas R. Machnitzki....
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...is in careful looking. Sometimes I am not sure what I am looking for, so I am in a state of watchfulness. When I went to Andalusia in August, there...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...Southern Spaces, May 30, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/battle-atlanta-history-and-remembrance. Please submit proposals (350–700 words) to seditor@emory.edu by March 17, 2016. Accepted proposals will be developed into full projects for submission by August 1, 2016....