Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...to consider includes (but is not limited to): Spaces and Identities​ Intersectionality, hybridity, identity: race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, regional identity, and class Migration narratives, globalization, queer diaspora, and spaces of...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...campus of a major university that pulls 60 percent of its student population from metro Atlanta, the most important city in the South. Three likely leaders of tomorrow." But I...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...gender. As Hardwig notes, "Neither Murfree nor Chesnutt felt the need to obey the demands of a gendered and racialized sense of authenticity, but their readership and editors imposed it...
The State House Aflame 1833
Fire can burn brands on a slave's skin as he changes hands like cattle. And chattel slavery in a capital city is as old as fire and man. Milledgeville's no...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...Picture Arts and Sciences to review the veracity of the film. His approach reveals more than a director's preference for primary sources, more than the creation of authentic-seeming material to...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...be "the president of all the people." But most of the people in this seventy-percent African American city demonstrated their solidarity by staying away. "McCain's policies unify us," said lawyer...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...the emboldened and blazing defender of all her sons and daughters." In Chicago, the Mother Jones Heritage Project is negotiating with the city to erect a statue of her downtown....