"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...screen, here's to hoping that he embraces the fullness of Faulkner's modernism, creating the kind of layered film Faulkner never would have been able to write during his days haunting...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...on the project, I think I succeeded to varying degrees in different places, and perhaps not at all in some. Given the fact that I could spend only a day...
Antietam
We all went in a yellow school bus, on a Tuesday. We sang the whole way up. We tried to picture the bodies stacked three deep on either side of...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the "peace-maker" on board the U.S. Steam Frigate, Princeton, on Wednesday 28th Feb 1844, New York, 1844. Lithograph by N. Currier. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...resources addressing these topics. To listen to the voices and prioritize the recommendations of those who experience systemic and everyday acts of racism and racist violence as we further our...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
Blog Post Camille Goldmon, editorial associate: I'm rereading Patricia Sullivan's Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. It's a monograph on liberal New Dealers and their...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...lesbian organization First Friday in the 1980s. Courtesy of the LGBTQ History Collection, Virginia Room, Roanoke Public Libraries. We have the tools to probe this history on the local level....
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
Blog post Mother Jones died ninety years ago, but she was back in Alabama this July. It was not her first visit to the state. She came to Birmingham and...