Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
...Author Erich Nunn is Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University, where he teaches American Studies, with an emphasis on the literature and culture of the US South. He is...
The US South in Global Contexts
Part 2: Dr. Marshall Eakin "Origins of the Old South" Part 3: Dr. Natalie Ring "Encountering the Problem South in the Late Nineteenth Century" Part 4: Dr. Tara McPherson "Wal-Mart...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
...a brave reclamation and reckoning: a reclamation rooted in the absolute necessity to articulate, in the elegant language of poetry, a fuller version of our American story. Beyond the sheer...
Bricking the Church
...Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he received the History Award...
The Civil Rights Archive
Video Part 2: Dr. Patton explains the layout of Trenholm State's Civil Rights Archive and addresses obstacles she encountered...
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
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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...