Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...be a fair representation of NOLA gentrification. It was just before Hurricane Katrina that the neighborhood around NOCCA began to be seen as a hip option—at least in my experience....
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...camera renders snapshot subject matter in brilliantly framed black and white images full of crisp lines and sharp contrasts. In “Edith, Ruth, and Mary, Danville, Virginia,” his wife and her...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...the bulk of opposition to immigration reform in Washington. Had Congress voted last year along the same lines as almost all representatives from southern states, legislation would have passed barring the President's...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...were vaccinated at a lower rate than white Democrats, the values associated with vaccine hesitancy follow the lines of partisan values and ideological orientation. A Michigan study in early 2021...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
..."Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space." Southern Spaces, November 3, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/atlantas-charis-books-and-more-histories-feminist-space. Solomon, Eric. "Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida." Southern Spaces, August...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...explained in his 1993 book The Well-Placed Weed from which our documentary takes its title. Gainey's gardens feature a fascinating give-and-take between the structured and the free-flowing. Looking into Ryan...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...Stanford University in 2002. His research interests focus on the political culture of twentieth-century America, in particular, the US South. Crespino's first book, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...impetus as an explicitly abolitionist form, like Stowe's novel (indeed the narratives were an important source for her book's rendering of slave life). The fugitive or freed slaves, writing first-hand...
Seneca Quarry
...Smithsonian." I've been researching and writing a broad history of Seneca quarry over the past year, a book called The Smithsonian Castle and The Seneca Quarry, which the History Press will...