Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
Megabus Coach USA MCI 102EL3 #29030, August 8, 2006. Photograph by Steinsky. Courtesy of Steinsky. Last Spring, Edward A. Hatfield wrote for Southern Spaces on the challenges of transportation planning...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
The Southern Quarterly recently published a special issue devoted to the work of Natasha Trethewey, US Poet Laureate and member of Southern Spaces's editorial board. As Southern Quarterly editor...
Grave of James D. Lynch, Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, 2012
Tom Rankin, Grave of James D. Lynch, Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, 2012. James D. Lynch (1839–1872) was the first African American to serve as the Secretary of State of Mississippi. Born...
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
This week's Bulletin focuses on recent announcements in publishing and digital scholarship. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding these issues. The Modern...
On Fair Use
The doctrine of "fair use" is an increasingly important concept for scholars, libraries, and universities as digital technologies continue to change the ways that we research, publish, and teach in...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Gravestones in Chester County, South Carolina and Wythe County, Virginia
William Simpson gravestone (1777), Stone Cemetery, Chester County, South Carolina, March 1996. Rear faces of gravestones carved by Laurence Crone, McGavock Family Cemetery, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Virginia, August 1978....
Street scene, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1935
Ben Shahn, Street scene, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1935. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-006097-M3....
Bill's fish market, Sunset Beach, North Carolina, 2012
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Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...