Unquiet Emmett Till
...attorneys were rushed (the trial took place three weeks after the murder), had inadequate resources, made mistakes, but clearly they wanted convictions, and wanted them badly. Why did they not...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...is a rural, agricultural county located in mountainous, northwestern North Carolina. Throughout its history, the county's rugged terrain has prevented easy access to outlying cities such as Asheville or Knoxville....
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...streets and boulevards splayed out from the river’s curvature like so many bicycle spokes. Bending this strange terrain to the rules of geometry must have given surveyors fits. Douglas describes...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...In the still, a dancer performs at a "sissy shakedown" at Club Vibe, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2004. From there Miller hits the ground running, providing the reader with thorough accounts...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...Courtesy of Lewis Watts. The Katrina photography in New Orleans Suite is clear-eyed and nuanced: a flooded band room sitting empty, its brass instruments ruined; New Orleans police officers in...
New Website for Music Memory
In April 2012, Southern Spaces published an interview with Lance Ledbetter, founder of Dust-to-Digital Records, in which he discussed the operations of his Atlanta-based record label. During the interview, Ledbetter mentioned...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...the crowded streets of the most commercial towns, and its victims are less numerous than those of the bilious putrid fever, or typhus, which sometimes runs over [all of Europe]."14David...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War, Fifteenth Anniversary Edition (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016), 120. Hale sent his letter to Governor Beriah...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...ten camps built for detaining 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent, these two in Arkansas were set up right alongside the vital supply line. So these trains had become an infuriating...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...front, by its latest corporate name, TCL Chinese Theater. Even its nearly forty-year run as Mann's Chinese Theater was scoffed at by locals. It was, is, and forever will be...