Putting up Beans
...don’t wear aprons much anymore. Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...
Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance
...find relief from the din and confusion of the city, during the long, hot summer. When the gates of the park are opened wide for the thousands of visitors they...
Casino, Ponce de Leon Park
...Leon is a private park under city police regulations. No disorderly characters tolerated. Colored persons admitted as servants only." Published: 15 January 2008 © 2008 Sarah Toton and Southern Spaces...
Substantiation
...graves. That a Yazoo City widow found her husband's gone and Lazarus ain't walking back through Eden, Greenwood, Itta Bena. That Jesus Christ ain't come. Every Leflore County lawyer can't...
Stones and Shadows
...you like to live in New York City?" I search for ways to interrupt, to shut him up. But when I look left, he has become just a voice in...
Anniversary
Early, the city's empty, almost soundless, still. The air has a photograph's grain, a mist that's still deciding whether to rise or fall, and again, we're walking down Dexter, drawn...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She has published several books of poems, including: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...Gulf South borderlands in particular found evidence for this portrayal in the writings of early French, Spanish, and Anglo observers who emphasized the "mental incapacity" and "backwardness" of the region's...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...new or surprising material. Writers popular and academic have long served up Cherokee Removal as a measure of an emergent nation's moral capacity.1Significant works include William G. McLoughlin, Cherokees and...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...Philip Simmons' Ironwork in Charleston, South Carolina, produced in partnership with the Philip Simmons Foundation, Inc., reveals the cultural legacies of enslaved artisans in this city, which influenced the life...