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
...of Africa, in the development of people, in that which is true and good." Biggers believed Ampofo embodied "the New Africa," linking the continent's past with its future through his...
"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...in nearby Wellford. This gift was not named in Narcissa's will, so it may have been presented before the maker's death in 1881. History: The Parlor Mid-nineteenth-century homes included a...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...Three of the most important plantation novels are John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn, first published in 1832 and then republished with a few revisions in 1851; William Gilmore Simms' Woodcraft,...
Consolation
If we could take them back, swinging by the Little Kitchen's shadow on Jefferson Street and waving them in as they were, Livingston, Alexander, Britt, and York, piling together on...
Making History
...pull out spoon after spoon after spoon. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...
The Dirt Eaters
Southern Tradition of Eating Dirt Shows Signs of Waning —headline, The New York Times, 2/14/84 tra dition wanes I read from North ern South: D.C. Never ate dirt but I...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...stand where the newsmen stood, over that place where the Riders waited in a circle of grace and disbelief, fragile as the surface of a ladle that hears each word....
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...Federal District Judge of the Second District of New York, handed down his decision in The Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust. HathiTrust is a digital repository in partnership with over...