Fife Family Cemetery
Video Fife Family Cemetery, Hughes County, Oklahoma, 2008. Filmed by Craig Womack and Rosemary McCombs Maxey, edited by Southern Spaces staff. Affiliated essay....
Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band
Video...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...University of California Santa Cruz, and Eric Porter, a University of California Santa Cruz American Studies and history professor, take the title of their book from a five-movement Duke Ellington-composed...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...and well-preserved Native American (Guale) shellring on the northwestern corner of the island gives evidence that humans have experienced Sapelo for at least 4,500 years. The arrival of the Spanish...
The Border South
...free black Americans in the South. Over 55,000 blacks in Virginia were free in 1860, over 80,000 in Maryland, including over 25,000 in the city of Baltimore. Most free blacks...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...Yoknapatawpha Project. Taylor Hagood: I'm an associate professor of American Literature at Florida Atlantic University and a member of a team of scholars, technical experts, programmers, and cartographers who contribute...
Negotiating Black Identities
...on the construciton and reproduction of class-based identities among middle-class Blacks. Prof. Lacy's lecture was sponsored by the Emory American Studies Program and the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts....
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...North Carolina," was one of the earliest studies of regional variations in American quiltmaking traditions. Between 1983 and 1985, Horton worked with the McKissick Museum at the University of South...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...of me. Making History All I know of the Spanish-American War is what Virginia boys, kept safe at college, etched into the mortar with their pencils so that leaning against...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...husband. Holly Jackson's American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation has helped ground my teaching in Introduction to American Studies. I was honored to read Valérie Loichot's Water Graves:...