Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...Modes of Resistance: A Review of Hypercities." Southern Spaces, September 15, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/spatial-humanities-and-modes-resistance-review-hypercities. Battle, Mary. "Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative." Southern Spaces, October 6,...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
...history of slavery and emancipation. He is the author of Roots of Southern Populism (1983), and co-editor (with Jonathan Prude) of The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation (1985)....
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...the figures with rates in Cuba. He offers a sympathetic portrait of the Cuban countryside and the possibilities for greater agricultural collaboration once the United States lifts its embargo. African...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...Captain Simon Suggs, the 1845 creation of Johnson Jones Hooper: "It is good to be shifty in a new country." The genre of southwestern humor is the first of a...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...fiat that changed the initials the young Grant planned to adopt ("U.H.") to "U.S.," with all that the latter letters portend for Grant's and the country's future (according to Four...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
"Made by Mary Louisa Snoddy Black—‘The Tulip’ design. Cousin Theresa Snoddy helped quilt it." History: The Tulip was one of the most popular appliqué patterns in the Carolina upcountry during...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...a series of case studies Villanueva makes clear that violence against Mexicans in Texas must be understood in a borderlands context, with events in one country affecting race relations in...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...coincided with struggles in Washington, Selma, and Birmingham. And as the pace of the black freedom struggle quickened, centennial activities slowed. The 35,000 visitors at Manassas in 1961 turned into...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...mob, but the soldiers did little to prevent the raid, refusing to fire their guns. Once inside, the mob freed all the white prisoners, roughed up and "interrogated" the suspects,...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...sheeting from raw cotton at the Katherine Plant of Springs Mills (now Springs Global) in Chester, South Carolina in 2006. About the Photographer Pressly Hall is a professional freelance photographer...