Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...and short videos, Southern Spaces will publish peer-reviewed digital projects as a part of the "Digital Spaces" series. Projects may take a variety of forms and we encourage multi-media and...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...sense of the sublime often found in Romantic art. She photographs farmers burning fields of sugar cane in advance of harvest. The fires burn at high temperatures for short periods...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...the process of being restored in a shop on Magazine Street to a portrait of MacArthur Award-winning artist John Scott, who lost his home in Katrina and died shortly afterward,...
Whiskey and Geography
Shooting Creek Making Whiskey in the Backcountry Whiskey making, while rare in southern England, was highly developed in both Scotland and Ireland by the time of the Ulster emigration. We...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
Southwestern Humor Southwestern humor is perhaps the most intriguing of southern antebellum literary genres, for writers of this loose-knit "school," often contributors to sporting or gentlemen's magazines, abandoned the plantation...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...in states with a history of racial discrimination might be short-lived. Though sodomy laws were declared unconstitutional in 2003 by the Supreme Court, an East Baton Rouge Sheriff's department has...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...made of objects and landscapes, which thereby gains agency (9). In short, the introduction exposes the radical redefinition of subject and personhood in the American tropics. The next chapter, "Swamp...