Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...in Texas in 2011 and 2012 because the state failed to prove that these laws did not "have the purpose or effect of denying or abridging the right to vote...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...includes 1,600 color photographs taken between 1939 and 1944. Many of the images depict rural farming practices, social life in towns, factories and their environmental effects, and aspects of World...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...face hardships if they seek abortions. As the Texas Tribune noted, the bill had a much higher chance of passing in a special session because Lt. Governor David Dewhurst planned "to suspend Senate...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...paintings, photographs, installations, and films, in a pervasive celebration of amateurism and primitivism, and in the crazy free form dancing that erupted wherever bands played. In Athens, child’s play worked...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean in its early formulation. Highly recommended for ecocritical scholars. Finally, because drama does not get its readerly due and most of...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
...Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)....
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...an M.A. in 1960. Between 1958 and 1960, Egerton was with the Public Relations Department of the University of Kentucky, and from 1960 to 1965, he was the Director of...
Montgomery, Alabama images
Montgomery, Alabama: Intersection of Bibb and Commerce Streets Confederate Memorial, Alabama State Capitol Grounds The house in which Jefferson Davis and his family lived in is now preserved as "the...
Black Population Atlanta and the Vicinity, 1940-1970
...The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta" Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 28 November 2005 © 2006 Kevin Kruse and Southern Spaces...
Piedmont Blues
Figure 2.1: The Piedmont. Map courtesy of James W. Clay and Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989.) Although the Piedmont plateau stretches from New...