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...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern Spaces, MARBL...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...University of California Santa Cruz, and Eric Porter, a University of California Santa Cruz American Studies and history professor, take the title of their book from a five-movement Duke Ellington-composed...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...once you get the audience. If you don't get the audience, you got nothing."1 David N. Rubin, Go-Go Swing (WETA-TV, 1990), videocassette, 60:00. In the late 1980s, go-go rose to...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...The author's choice of Middle Florida makes sense considering the book's time frame: 1820-1920. From the Territorial era through the Great War (the other great war), Middle Florida commanded the...
Naming Each Place
...the poem "Runaway." Poem text. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In this interview, conducted on September 5, 2009, during the Decatur (Georgia) Book Festival, Jericho Brown talks with Natasha Trethewey about...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...with a different director for each episode. Like Ken Burns's Jazz (2000), The Blues tied itself to numerous commercial products, including a book and a compact disc series. German director...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...Gallery in San Francisco. In 2006 a limited-edition book of her Memphis photographs was sold at Burke's Book Store. 2008 finds Amie working on the photo-per-day "Memphis Project 366," in...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
..."Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space." Southern Spaces, November 3, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/atlantas-charis-books-and-more-histories-feminist-space. Solomon, Eric. "Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida." Southern Spaces, August...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...They did a down-homey acoustic tour with Alabama keyboard legend, Spooner Oldham, another David Hood associate. They have backed up R&B legends Bettye Lavette and Booker T. Jones (once of...