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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate

...2012; Kim Severson, "For Transit Relief, Congested Atlanta Ponders a Penny Tax," The New York Times, July 15, 2012, accessed September 6, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/us/atlanta-area-residents-to-vote-on-tax-for-transportation.html; Bookman, "The self-induced paralysis of Georgia...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...The move to the St. Charles came during Saxon's stint as director of the Federal Writers' Project in Louisiana. Part major-domo, part Rochester to Saxon's Jack Benny, Gilmore's principal tasks...

Editors

...Jones, University of Richmond Kristin Kant-Byers, Rochester Institute of Technology Peter Kastor, Washington University in St. Louis Anthony E. Kaye, Pennsylvania State University Lovalerie King, Pennsylvania State University Ann Kingsolver,...

Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story

...When we revisited Avery Island, where many of Louisiana Story's sequences—especially those involving alligators—were shot, Shane K. Bernard, scholar of Cajun culture and history and curator of the McIlhenny Company's...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...

Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers

...artwork, which included ebony and mahogany carvings along with cement statues.2John Biggers, typescript draft of travel diary, July 4, 1957, John Biggers Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library, Emory...

The Shenandoah Valley

...many thousands of visitors a year from the eastern cities and many millions of dollars into the region. Park boosters engineered state takings (under eminent domain) of the land from...