MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...Engraving by John Cary. Originally published in Cary's New Universal Atlas, London, 1808. Courtesy of the Thomas Bassett Personal Collection, imagesearchnew.library.illinois.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/africanmaps/id/2018/. While maps differ in their illustration of, and arguments...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...2008 election that has received relatively little comment is the fact that Barack Obama is the first president elected since John F. Kennedy who is not from the Sunbelt, the...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...their presence, from slaves mining saltpeter and 1930s smoky signatures to neon sprayed names. In “Johnny,” perfect red cursive letters spell out the name in the center of the photograph,...
The Morning with Many Tongues
Readings Sean Hill reads the poem "Just as Sure." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "Nigger Street 1937." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "The State House Aflame 1833." Poem text....
Miner's sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia
John Vachon, Miner's sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF34-032709-D....
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
Southern Spaces recommends Educational Resources, a feature of our website developed for educators, students, and researchers. Southern Spaces open educational resources collect the journal's publications into several fields of knowledge...
The Place of Appalachia
...(insider "good," outsider "bad") too often have tended to substitute for deeper social analysis and political critique.2Helen Matthews Lewis, Linda Johnson, and Donald Askins, eds., Colonialism in Modern America: The...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...of slavery apologists (and later apologists for colonization and segregation), or more likely some rich combination of all these things. The main campus of Johns Hopkins University is built on...