Searcy County Livestock Auction
...has declined by nearly fifty percent since 1910. The county had over one thousand farms in 1963; five decades later it has fewer than six hundred. Now closed, the Searcy...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...total this year of 135,192 unique readers represented a 15.6% increase over the previous year. Readership report email template, 2013. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. We extracted information on page views...
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
Natasha Trethewey interviewing Elizabeth Alexander, 2009. From Southern Spaces. This week, Natasha Trethewey was named the United States Poet Laureate. As we celebrate and congratulate her, we wanted to take...
New Website for Music Memory
...that have been amassed and preserved by a group of dedicated collectors partnering with Ledbetter. Although the music that eventually will populate Music Memory is not yet accessible to users,...
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
...helped organize the 1955–56 bus boycott. Glass taught geography at Alabama State University from the late 1940s until she retired in 1981. For more about Thelma Glass, read the biographical...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...in the New Orleans hip-hop and bounce scene from the late 1980s through Hurricane Katrina. The NOLA Hip-hop Archive is the culmination of over two years of oral history interview...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...asserted Vardaman's fellow senator John Sharp Williams, Choctaws lived "an honest and simple life" (51). Later, Theodore Bilbo would also take up the Choctaw cause in Washington. The lobbying bore...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...attentiveness to landscapes and ecologies in Southern Studies and environmental history is more complex. Historian Barbara J. Fields argued at a conference of southern regionalist historians in the late 1990s...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Charles Davenport's testimony many years later in the WPA narratives offers a glimpse of what one recruiter ran up against at Aventine Plantation, on the other side of Second Creek....
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...