The US South and the 2008 Election
...it for the first time since the 1870s. In 1930, New York was the most populous state, and California was only the sixth largest. By 1990, California had almost twice...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...were in the Southern states—and eleven of those were in Texas and Virginia. Most of these 396 districts were located in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio,...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
Blog Post Camille Goldmon, editorial associate: I'm rereading Patricia Sullivan's Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. It's a monograph on liberal New Dealers and their...
The Chesapeake Bay
...watershed encompasses parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia). The Bay was formed only 10,000 years ago. Its Algonquian name, which means "Great Shellfish...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...2007. Photograph by Flickr user Gilbert Sopakuwa. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. González Melo: Recuerdo que a principios de los 2000, cuando atravesaba en la noche la Habana Vieja...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...of city and I had prepared myself for an urban jungle. However, while we live one mile from the Atlanta city limits, my new neighborhood hosts a variety of wildlife,...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...for me, this is the Parkway's real gift to the public. Slow has served as the operative word since the Parkway's conception as one of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs....
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...The nine tracks include eight new songs written or co-written by Leavell and a re-visitation of "Jessica". In addition to musical recording and touring, Leavell manages his pine forested Charlane...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...served as a conductor. In 1874 the collection was reprinted with its prose passages reworked in verse and a new appendix featuring poetic commentaries on the Fifteenth Amendment, the Underground...