"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...on the borderland" (6). He notes that most slaves in Kentucky were acutely aware of the alternatives offered by free black life just across the river because of their proximity...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...and filmmaker Matt Miller uses the realities of Hurricane Katrina to orient his careful and detailed history of New Orleans rap and the intensely local native New Orleans rap style,...
Welcome!
...new cultural non-profit collecting 78rpm records, to the use of Confederate flags at Croatian soccer games, we will present short, scholarly posts about subjects that engage with southern spaces. Provide...
Seneca Quarry
...quarry during the construction of the Smithsonian Castle. While overt evidence confirming that slave labor was used (such as a contract between a slave owner and a contractor to lease...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...and long-lived singing traditions in the US South. First published in 1844 by Georgia compilers B.F. White and E.J. King, the book has been constantly used and occasionally revised. For...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...as they do to rural isolation, commercial underdevelopment, African, British, and Celtic survivals in the New World, and the Lost Cause and other self-conscious efforts to create and shape historical...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...social club called the Jolly Twelve. Old Fourth Ward residence where the Jolly Twelve would gather before going out to a club or house party. Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Joey...
Roadside Architecture
...roads. I've been looking all the while and on occasion perhaps even seeing. When I think I'm seeing, I stop to make pictures. I've photographed rural landscapes, courthouse squares, agricultural...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...at Emory University on March 9, 2006 in a presentation sponsored by the American Studies Program. All contemporary images of New Orleans are used with permission from Nick Spitzer, unless...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...New Republic. This distribution of political power is a consequence of the demographic shifts in cities like Atlanta since the Second World War, a topic discussed by Kevin Kruse in...