Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...marked "SPQA," likely signifying "Senate and People of the American Republic," rendering the goddess an allegorical figure for Americans in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and other northeastern cities where Romans...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...atrocities and enslaved people's freedom struggles. Denmark Vesey's Garden shows convincingly that the way in which white and black Charlestonians produced alternative narratives of the past represents an uneven but...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...to, the southern United States. They illuminate the residues and persistences of interacting peoples and places, markets and material cultures.5See C. Dayan, "Servile Law," in Cities Without Citizens, eds. Eduardo...
Glocal Lounge
.... "We might," Watts offers, "teach our students to consider a text’s geographic placement as providing a nexus between the specificities of that setting and the larger issues at stake"...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...and families, cities and states, region and religion. In Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1820–1920, Lee L. Willis has written a short but incisive look...
Margaret Walker's "Micah" (1970)
...your paid assassins I shall be whole again in deathless triumph! For your rich men are full of violence And your mayors of your cities speak lies. They are full...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...a source of visual amusement. At the turn of the century, most southern cities and towns, even small towns like Livermore, had an opera house where white townspeople of all...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and those of Mississippians" (182). She employs denominational sources, notes and reports from religious meetings, letters from northern parishioners, and instances of civil rights opposition in northern cities involving white...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
Emory University's Center for Digital Scholarship and Georgia State University's Cities Initiative and the Department of Geosciences invite proposals for presentations at the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium. The day-long...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...much needed texture and intimacy to our understanding of racial violence. Moreover, they remind us of how much the practice of lynching was contingent upon local factors and the specificities...