Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
Thelma McWilliams Glass died on July 24, 2012 at age ninety-six. She was the last surviving member of the Women’s Political Council (WPC), a group of African American women in Montgomery, Alabama, who...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...Campanella, a geographer with Tulane's architecture program, in "Gentrification and its Discontents: Notes from New Orleans." In this article, he ties this migration southward to so-called "revitalization" movements that displace...
The Change
...their slaves they brought from Africa when they sold our ancestors as slaves in the Middle East, that then the tobacco was sacred to all of us and we prayed...
Gone With the Wind
...anymore. Published in Southern Quarterly 45.1 (Fall 2007): 53-54. Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Putting up Beans
...Huron I suppose, Tsalagi on the southern side. Holding hard with indexes, thumbs, double-handed popping apart plump green strings fresh from leafy hills in the fields. Bristling with bees and...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...evenings. Women made frequent visits with relatives, sometimes for several days at a time, and they carried handwork in order to keep their hands occupied during these visits. In southern...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...that emerged during the late-nineteenth century to become the most common quilting design for Southern utility quilts during the early-twentieth century. The concentric arcs of the "fans" are comfortable for...
Fort Scott newspapers
...brightest and darkest day which the people of this city ever experienced. During a year of unprecedented plenty the brawn and brain of Southern Kansas has been busy erecting the...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...first appeared in The Northwest Review and will appear in Persons Unknown (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010, forthcoming). Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...