Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...composition and writing classrooms. Our curated collections feature publications that approach a similar theme or subject across multiple genres, creating ways to examine constraints and opportunities unique to each. Studying...
Dirty Little Story
...my state, my people. I say I hope this won't be the permanent impression of Mississippi that they take away. We try to let the children swim, but the joy...
Buckner Gap, North Carolina
...courtesy of Rob Amberg. 180-ton dump truck hauling debris to a fill area, north of Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Highway construction in process, Buckner Gap,...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...we had our club meetings, and so forth and so on. Most of these homes around here are equipped that way."4Henry Herbert Bankston, interview by author, April 12, 2012. A...
From A Field Guide to Etowah County
...to set things right. Goldenrod blazes the highway's shoulders, all the way to Birmingham or Chattanooga, and starlings gather like glass, like grackles in the trees, such sociability an advance...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
Whitts’ BP Station at the top of Murray Mountain on US 23 North, Murray Mountain, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Dale Fluty on the highway: "We would agree...
Jarvis Branch, North Carolina
Chris Carter’s home being moved out of the right-of-way of I-26, Jarvis Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Chris Carter’s house being moved to new location off of...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...in the sixteenth century and, like Tyll, takes you to places and times that seem very real although very far away. And, after some weeks, I have worked my way...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...a deliberately disruptive way." Interestingly, Gray uses this description of the genre in a book called Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism (2000) and...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...way for Black families to live on the west side of Center Street—but not without brutal backlash. The area was bombed so frequently it became known as "Dynamite Hill," in...