The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
Review By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the cause of worldwide abolition was riding high. Nearly a half century had passed since revolutionary fervor put slavery on a...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
Amos Kennedy Print, Kennedy and Sons Collection, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. On March 15, 2016, acclaimed printmaker Amos Kennedy, Jr. participated in a public conversation about...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
Review It is a central contradiction of contemporary life that Americans have learned to coexist with mechanisms of human extinction.1The United States currently maintains an arsenal of 4,760 nuclear weapons,...
Zircon
Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...
Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
Logo, On Second Thought, Georgia Public Broadcasting. Southern Spaces author Karen Beck Pooley was featured in a June 16, 2015 interview on Georgia Public Broadcasting's radio program On Second Thought....
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...