Birth Right
...Statistics. Infant Mortality Slideshow. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Public Health, 2008. Advocates assert that midwives could also help lower the state's high infant mortality rate of 9.5 deaths per 1,000...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...locating, describing, mapping, and writing about alligator dens and gopher-tortoise burrows. The use of a drone enables a new way of studying the island's dynamic ecosystems and scouting locations difficult...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
...Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)....
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
...and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968 and the co-editor of a new scholarly edition of Arna Bontemps's 1939 novel Drums at Dusk and of the collection of essays...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...
Failed Memory Exercise
...flowerbeds For the pumps and grease rack of the new Shell; But begin again, for the dark green Lincoln rises To its lube and crests where Zetty's kitchen was: The...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
This week's featured image was inspired by my own search for information about my newly adopted neighborhood of Cabbagetown, a former milltown on Atlanta's east side. With its perilous, narrow...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs. John Biggers paints House of the Turtle, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, ca. 1990. Photo courtesy of John Biggers's Estate. John...
"Little Switzerland"
...if you want to enjoy a thousand vernal pleasures, visit Little Switzerland." (Atlanta Constitution (April 27, 1890), p. 8.) Published: 15 January 2008 © 2008 Sarah Toton and Southern Spaces...