The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...Trethewey, and Coleman Hutchison's presentation "Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism," which charts how Trethewey and poets Elizabeth Alexander and C. S. Giscombe "conceive of, interrogate, and then steadfastly...
New Website for Music Memory
In April 2012, Southern Spaces published an interview with Lance Ledbetter, founder of Dust-to-Digital Records, in which he discussed the operations of his Atlanta-based record label. During the interview, Ledbetter mentioned...
Gravestones in Chester County, South Carolina and Wythe County, Virginia
...Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Virginia, August 1978. From Daniel Patterson, The True Image (read an essay excerpted from the book). Used with permission of the University of North Carolina Press....
Boarded-up homes in abandoned mining town, Twin Branch, West Virginia, 1938
...down completely rather than have it unionized. Around 1000 men used to work there. They won't sell it, rent or let 'squatters' live in the deserted homes that are rotting...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...in work that deals with the real and imagined spaces and places of the US South, but we also encourage submissions that model innovative digital scholarship, activism, art, and teaching...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...fountain in front of a store. Five girls and a boy watch a Ferris wheel on a neighborhood playground. Shot in 1956 by Life magazine photographer Gordon Parks on assignment in...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...include a talk about the context and legacy of the July 22, 1864, battle by Daniel Pollock, project lead and Civil War scholar; a demonstration of the mobile tour by...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...in 1915. The wild and wooly gubernatorial election of 1916 crystallized the issues of prohibition. Sidney Johnston Catts electrified voters who flocked to his rallies to hear the "Cracker Messiah"...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...Woodruff library. Digital mapping that matched each historical spot with its modern-day location was done by geospatial librarian Michael Page, another member of the project team. The Troup Hurt House...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...