Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...2017. Courtesy of OER Commons. Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Open Educational Resource (OER) is the name given by proponents of open access to educational material—including course content, assignments,...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...Observatory, Matthew Fontaine Maury. Embracing steam power, reorganizing the officer corps, and establishing the Naval Academy at Annapolis were initiatives championed by southerners, in addition to advocating expanded coastal defenses...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...painstaking "by the print" method. In each bandanna, she quilted a line down the center of the figured white handkerchief border, and added parallel lines on either side. The central...
The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
...on our submissions guidelines page (http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/guidelines.htm). Please submit original manuscripts to the following address: Managing Editor The Southern Quarterly The University of Southern Mississippi 118 College Drive #5078 Hattiesburg, MS...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...to end segregation—before the fiftieth anniversary of the bus burning occurs in 2011. A racially violent past is best addressed not by erasing its traces on the landscape, but by...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...March on Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 13, 2016. Photograph by Flickr user Stephen Melkisethian. Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. Southern Spaces welcomes submissions that: critically and creatively examine real...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...promoting equity. Dan T. Carter, who wrote Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, the definitive account of the trials, sounded a similar theme in his keynote address, urging those...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...powerful addition to any advanced course in environmental history as well as in literature. Superlatives fail to describe David W. Blight's biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018), a rich...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...invierno tropical del descontento, como escribe la crítica de teatro y académica titular Lillian Manzor "the trilogy addresses concerns that are dear to the author and his generation, namely: the...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...the Drew household was a high priority target for domestic terrorism because it was also a safehouse for civil rights organizing. Addine Drew (1916–2003), Jeff's mother, was known as the...