Remnants of Flannery
...Only his shoes were on him . . . [his] mouth twisted open to the side as if it were going to displace itself permanently . . . he began...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...academic research into widely accessible digital exhibitions. Each LDHI exhibition includes narrative text vetted through an open peer review process with editorial contributors, and features digitized exhibition materials such as...
DOIs and Altmetrics
Screenshot of Altmetric homepage, June 7, 2016. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. Southern Spaces announces the adoption of several features that support our mission of publishing open access and public-facing scholarship....
Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...and exclusion indelibly marked the growth of coastal capitalism, "firmly linking white privilege to public services and infrastructure improvements" (128). African Americans, who had enjoyed relatively open access to the...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...all but 7.5 of the Parkway's 469-miles opened to the public in 1961. Those final few miles, around Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, the "missing link," took another twenty-six years...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...the other way to west, to wilderness, to where the future waits to open out its shining promise, destiny. Backwater meant new water then, where greatness waited, tilted toward the...
Fort Scott newspapers
...are open questions." Fort Scott Herald. "The Right of Self Protection." April 5, 1879. "Fort Scott has no apology to make for the dreadful deed which was forced on the...
August, 1959: Morning Service
Beside the open window on the cemetery side, I drowsed as Preacher Lusk gripped his Bible like a bat snagged from the pentecostal gloom. In that room where heat clabbered...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...