Southern Spaces Recommends
...Europe during the Thirty Years' War. It's like something the poet Charles Simic might imagine. I'm currently reading Pekka Hämäläinen's Lakota America, a history of the Sioux people that begins...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...revolution, disparities in sentencing in US criminal courts have become more marked, not less. In the 1930s, black Americans were three times as likely as whites to face jail or...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...clutched my shoulder and screamed like a catamite. When we ratcheted to a full stop he said Again. We went on the Scrambler, the Apple Turnover, the Log Flume. We went...
How I Shed My Skin
...collective, the loner-outsider desiring connection: "I would like to have lived in the world where I could have sung in that chorus, where what mattered would have been only the...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...housed in The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at UGA Libraries. John left the marches and protests to activists like Bill Smith. A son of devout...
Putting up Beans
...likely Bull Durham and Drum. Full flavor sticks hung all through the entire shingle barn, above my head where I set gas to boil beans and waited outside underneath the...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...made a quilt, unlike any of the others in this collection, from nine identical red bandanna handkerchiefs. The printed handkerchief with its bright color and the agreeable design evokes the...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...likewise has the potential to introduce such music to new people, and to bring practitioners of different musical styles together. This certainly happened in my case. Ann McCleary, Members of...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...Mississippi Choctaw Collection, P12169. Choctaw history is packed with ironies and reads sometimes like an "only in America" tale. After the Civil War, for example, Mississippi's most ardent white supremacists...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...hundred largest commuter zones in the study (worst here meaning the least likely for children born to low-income families to ever rise out of poverty), was used by The New...