Louisiana National Guardmen observe as water from the industrial canal overtops the levees, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2008
...Gustav, September 1, 2008. In this photograph, two Guardsmen located on the Claiborne Avenue Bridge observe as water from the industrial canal overtops the levees and pours onto the city....
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...a community-based music with place (rather than solely with family, religious denomination, race, ethnicity, or another cultural marker) creates openings for individuals who fall outside the group previously associated with...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...the South in popular culture and historical accounts. For some, it is a city distinct from the rest of the South, even as for others, it is very much part...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...drink and drinking vexed Floridians. Framers of the state constitutions and city statutes grappled with myriad questions concerning liquor. Was the consumption of moonshine whiskey and store-bought bourbon a democratic...
Margaret Walker's "Micah" (1970)
...of deceit. We do not fear them. They shall not enter the City of good-will. We shall dwell under our vine and fig tree in peace. And they shall not...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Peter Harholdt, Radcliffe Bailey in his studio with Clean Up II, November 2010. Over the last two decades, Radcliffe Bailey has produced some of the most distinctive art in...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...the bandannas with railroad men, and the simplicity of its construction may have seemed appropriate for a small boy. Published: 19 May 2006 © 2006 Laurel Horton and Southern Spaces...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...the Protestant Apprentice Boys of Derry defended the city against the monarch's claim to divine right. More recently, the Free Derry civil rights movement represented a modern freedom struggle. On...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...