Writing Appalachia
...focusing instead on what John Alexander Williams calls "core" Appalachia—that is, the southern mountains as defined by Campbell and others.17John Alexander Williams, Appalachia: A History (2002), 13. Aside from the...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...and his horse racing exploits, see John Dizikes, Sportsmen and Gamesmen (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981), 124–157; also John Dizikes, Yankee Doodle Dandy: The Life and Times of Tod Sloan (New...
Genres of Southern Literature
...and "Southern," the literatures that are categorized within these separate concepts of "flowerings" share many of the same historical contingencies. One has only to read John Crowe Ransom's "Antique Harvesters" and...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...versa.1This essay is adapted from Saralyn Chesnut and Amanda C. Gable's "'Women Ran It': Charis Books and More and Atlanta's Lesbian-Feminist Community, 1971–1981" in John Howard, (ed.) Carryin' On in...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
Interview Southern Spaces: How did you begin the project that became this remarkable documentary The Joneses? https://vimeo.com/390791326 The Joneses Trailer. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. John Howard: Jheri (at the...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Class Consciousness in an Indian Community” in Moors, Guatmala Indians and the State, 205-229; John M. Watanabe, Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World (Austin: Univesity of Texas Press,...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...massive frontal assaults against their position east of the city on July 22, 1864. At the center of the combat action rides Federal Major General John A. Logan, the largest...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...income, but then switched to the less cinematically interesting (and for some critics, less symmetrically ironic) work of a telephone lineman because it paid better and was less dangerous. As...