The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...Georgia had the constitutional right to kill Troy Leon Gregg.1Incidentally, Gregg was never executed because he escaped from Georgia State Prison the night before his scheduled execution in 1980, only...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
...did Cabbagetown look and feel like between the late nineteenth century and the late 1970s when the neighborhood's industrial identity was in its heyday? Georgia Tech's Fulton Bag and Cotton...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...16, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/back-future-mapping-workers-across-global-south. Hill, Sarah H. "Cherokee Removal Scenes: Elijay, Georgia, 1838." Southern Spaces, August 23, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838. Kirpalani, Neeta and Emily Jackson. "Birth Right." Southern Spaces, January 12, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/birth-right...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...Ellen Griffith Spears, and Kate Orff. "Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction." Southern Spaces, November 26, 2013. https://southernspaces.org/2013/petrochemical-america-petrochemical-addiction. Hill, Sarah. "Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838." Southern Spaces, August 23, 2012. https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838....
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Austin. He recently published the first literary history of the Civil War South, Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012)....
Bodies and Souls
Bodies and Souls: Video and Essay When the body is falling apart, it's hard to pay attention to what your soul is telling you. —Sister Manette Durand Map of Jonestown,...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...bonding in the South. Longstreet in Georgia Scenes, published in 1835, mastered what became the staples of the form: skillful representation of dialect, keen interest in regional types and customs,...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
Confederate and Union troops in close combat, Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Painting by the Atlanta Panorama Company. As the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta approaches,...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...