St. Thomas Church Supper near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 7, 1940
In light of our publication of Elizabeth Engelhardt's presentation "Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins," we decided to publish this series of photographs depicting preparations for a church...
Remembering Documentary Filmmaker George Stoney
Documentary filmmaker George Stoney, 96, died this week. His films include The Uprising of '34 (1995), about a large and violent strike in the southern textile industry in 1934, and...
Louisiana National Guardmen observe as water from the industrial canal overtops the levees, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2008
Chuck Simmins, Louisiana National Guardmen observe as water from the industrial canal overtops the levees, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2008. The Louisiana National Guard set up a road block in...
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
Thelma McWilliams Glass died on July 24, 2012 at age ninety-six. She was the last surviving member of the Women’s Political Council (WPC), a group of African American women in Montgomery, Alabama, who...
Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...
Bill's fish market, Sunset Beach, North Carolina, 2012
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University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
Coinciding with the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Southern Spaces and the University of Texas Press announce a collaborative publishing project. "No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep...
Threshing crew in the Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August 1936
This series of Carl Mydans photographs depicting wheat farmers in the Tygart Valley of West Virginia struck us as particularly interesting, so we decided to post it as this week's...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
© Brian Gauvin, Pratt Drive and Robert E. Lee Avenue at the breach in the 17th Street Canal Levee, Lakeview, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 27, 2005. Seven years ago, from...
Street scene, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1935
Ben Shahn, Street scene, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1935. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-006097-M3....