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...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...with the geographies of: historical memory and memorialization economic inequality and everyday precarity political boundaries (redistricting, voter suppression) forced migration, slavery, and human trafficking racial violence, hate crimes LGBTQ+ perspectives,...
Dirty Little Story
...days of work. You would need gloves, a mask and a backhoe. This public beach seems emblematic of all that is wrong with American culture. On the one hand, you...
"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...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...last shadows, as the people thin, I see a dark woman humming. It could be 1945, or it could be today. She’s headed home, humming some songs she thinks I...
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...