Grave of James D. Lynch, Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, 2012
...to a white father and black mother in Baltimore, Maryland, Lynch was trained as a minister at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire, and then preached in Galena, Indiana until the Civil War. After...
On Fair Use
...of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research." The limits of fair use doctrine continue to spark controversy as academic...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...representational politics of digital scholarship, with attention to demographic histories, global migrations, and diasporas Reflections on sustaining and archiving projects Projects that explore technologies and scholarship in relation to teaching new...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...In the early 1980s, many of Peel's clients and friends became sick and started dying from a mysterious new disease eventually named the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, commonly known as AIDS....
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...of Oklahoma Press, 1996). Osburn's overarching narrative, if not the specifics of the struggle, is fascinating. As a result of their hundred-year battle, this formerly isolated and impoverished group, reduced...
Bear Branch, North Carolina
Sign advertising new motel at Exit 3, Bear Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Unidentified people sitting on their porch at Bear Branch before they have to vacate...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
Excerpt from James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
...man's attempt to bear witness to the reality and power of the light (xv). James Baldwin New York, April, 1964 Published: 11 March 2008 © 2008 Southern Spaces ...
Fall Creek
...had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. Published in Raising the Dead (2003). Text may vary...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...