A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...built there because they had already claimed land concessions in the area. Powell’s book chronicles the town’s history from the time of Bienville to the Battle of New Orleans, explaining...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...this region that includes counties with some of the highest rates of poverty and highest percentages of Democratic voters in the United States. "I truly thank him for coming. It...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...de la figura cultural Heberto Padilla, un poeta venerado cuya obra criticó la Revolución y sus líderes en su momento, 1967–68, resultando en su arresto, tortura y exilio a los...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...their newsletter, Skip Two Periods, to "Discovering Our Heritage." The writer, "B. F.," wrote about finding her heritage at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, in Jonathan Ned Katz's book...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...and Spanish colonialism. The Tremé developed around Congo Square as one of the first neighborhoods of free people of color in the United States in the late eighteenth century.1For more...
Place, Time, and Memory
...and later sculptures About William Christenberry Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on November 5, 1936, William Christenberry was a painter, photographer, and sculptor whose work drew upon the subject matter of...
Race
...a poem tells a story, a story about race. Published in Antebellum Dream Book (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2001). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
Southern Spaces recommends Educational Resources, a feature of our website developed for educators, students, and researchers. Southern Spaces open educational resources collect the journal's publications into several fields of knowledge...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...challenge to the access and preservation of library books on the blog as a part of our contribution to spreading awareness (and celebrating!) this week. On October 10, Harold Baer,...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...of 1,823 visits on February 4, 2013.1During the same period, Southern Spaces attracted roughly 14,000 pageviews per month, 167,587 in total. Since 2008 our readership has increased every year. Our...