Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
Index of exhibitions on the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI) homepage. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. The Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI) is an online public history project hosted by...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
Review As I write this review of Robert Wuthnow's compelling account of Texas religious and cultural history, I am struck by two seemingly unrelated yet telling events that resonate...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...throughout the 1940s and 1950s. On June 11, 1963, Foster Auditorium entered the national spotlight when Alabama governor George Wallace refused to allow two African American students, Vivian Malone and...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...Transcript prepared by Minnie Bruce Pratt. Text may not exactly correspond to the video recording of Pratt's lecture available on Southern Spaces. © 2004 Minnie Bruce Pratt and Southern Spaces...
Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies
Today Southern Spaces published Edward A. Hatfield's essay "A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate," which surveys the challenges of transportation planning in the Atlanta metro region...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
Regions of Alabama
...at Auburn University and a leading authority on Alabama history and Baptist history in Alabama, was educated at Samford University, formerly Howard College (B.A.,1961) and Florida State University (M.S., 1962;...
Birdhouses
...Orion Press, 1964), 103. Rob McDonald, Lexington, Virginia. I am not a birdwatcher, and except for a crow's cawing, I'm hardly able to distinguish one native bird's voice from another...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...has never been the subject of a biography. I learned about Simpson when music bibliographer Erin Fulton included The Emancipation Car in the "Checklist of Southern Sacred Music Imprints, 1850–1925"...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...this edited interview with Southern Spaces, Thompson discusses his farming experiences and education, why he made these documentaries, their reception, migrant work in Florida and North Carolina, and the prospects...