Country Music Scholar
...honky tonk of the oil boom with older Appalachian music Part 4: Malone discusses the commercialization of rural southern music first as “hillbilly” and later as “country” Part 5: Malone discusses relationships...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...varying motivations colored information exchange. It obscures complexity to talk only about the Spanish or the English or Indians—or even Yamasees or Timucuas or Cherokees. Individual motivations are not easily...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...a simple headquarters of wooden frame buildings and one highly localized disease endemic to the Lowland South: malaria. Mosquito collection, Emory University Field Station on Ichauway Plantation, Baker County, Georgia,...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...Justice because "the integrity of the court's justices and the proceedings cannot be influenced by money or even have the appearance of being sold to the highest bidder." For more on...
Finding Media
...MARBL to locate drawings of the Scottsboro Boys for an article by Ellen Spears. Other libraries and archives have also been great resources; the Virginia Historical Society provided images of visitors to...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...rotating selection on our home page’s nameplate. We selected these images from the newly digitized Library of Congress collection of Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs. This collection...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...a description of the series from the University of Texas Press: In 2005 Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Gulf Coast and precipitated the flooding of New Orleans. It was a towering...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...challenge to homogeneity and a celebration of heterogeneity of cultures, people, and places. Could it be that Tejano and Mexican fishing practices joined Cajun, Anglo, and African American ones at...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...to rethink our approach to Wikipedia and to train some of our newer editorial associates in best-practices. Then, in the middle of March, I got to be part of a...
Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...