Gold Records in Deep Space
...of a Man. "Johnson" describes how one of "his" songs, "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground," was put on a record that went out with the Voyager space...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...rooms." As his creations garnered attention, he received commissions around the city. Although not formally trained in landscape design, Gainey, through self-study and experimentation, developed a distinctive style that combined...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...Usually she would wake my two siblings and me at 6:45, leave around 7:00 with makeup done but hot curlers still in her hair, return around 7:45, remove the curlers,...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...calls "magic geography," the Army Corps confiscated 59,000 acres of land and erased these five towns. It issued "requests to vacate" that granted residents as little as three weeks to...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
..."diversity ideology," whites extol the neighborhood's funky charm and eclectic mix of housing and population (race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and family type), and yet maintain mostly homogeneous friendships and make little effort to...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...wildlife refuge. The End of the Street "There are probably seventy lots total in the neighborhood, but only twenty homes, so everyone knows everyone well. My son had three little...