I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...they started in a slight breeze off the lake, the many and patient sails, I could see in those motions a little of the world that owns me — and...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...live on that earth—has given them and the next generation so little. Ra'Niqua Lee, editorial associate: I just finished Dorothy West's novel The Living is Easy. West tells the story...
Whiskey and Geography
...Newfound Sovereignty (New York: Scribner, 2006), 66. With this kind of consumption pattern among the English, they had little room to ridicule people of the western mountains as habitual drunks....
A Mess of Poke
Essay If some of y’all never been down South too much, I’m gonna tell you a little bit about this, so that you’ll understand what I’m talking about Down there...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...The farmers bred them for size and taste and texture and profit. They swam around in that little man-made lake and waited for the chopping block and the flash-frozen package....
Sonic Zora in Florida
...all over." "Mule on the Mount" is, by no means, a feminist revision of sexist vernacular culture, as it transitions into a stock tale of paranoia and betrayal ("My little...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...into a more appropriate and useful channel."2Simpson, "Note to the Public," v–vi. Despite his groundbreaking creativity, Simpson is little known today. Few scholars have written about his work, and he...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...by Beth Maynor Young. Reproduced by permission of the University of North Carolina Press. On the other hand, the authors spotlight some positive examples of longleaf management that are little...
Mississippi as Metaphor: State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: The limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: The idea of Mississippi as America writ large: did the “Mississippi...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...