Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...the generations, that before the Civil War, the quarry was mainly worked by enslaved men.5It would appear that few free persons, white or African American, labored in the quarry during...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...don’t want and the ones who are griping and complaining are usually the ones that are lazy and don’t want to work. I think that that’s what a lot of...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...free women of color formed a benevolent organization, the Female Union Band Society (FUBS). A decade later and for $250, they engaged Joseph T. Mason—schoolteacher and free man of color—to...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...in public domain. Given this exhaustive historiography, Freeman acknowledges that she did not write a "predatory book" that "devours" extant scholarship. Instead, her work fills an unstudied gap (4), emphasizing...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...I sketch four real historical bars that Weathers frequented: The Acme, Fernando's Hideaway, The Country, and Mary Ellen's Top Hat. I approach "Cheers" as a historical document that records how...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...the “relational violences of modernity” collectively necessitate that we consider the diversity of what she calls “alternative mapping practices.” By this she means attending to the spatial organization of maroon...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...may incorporate pieces published elsewhere, especially those authors seeking tenure or promotion. While we encourage the free circulation of information, we believe it is unfair to impose reuse requirements on...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...symptom of and solution to a larger problem within the system of academic publishing and promotion. It is a university press published monograph that represents the many ongoing, collaborative digital...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Carolina, Governor McCrory and the state's house speaker acknowledged that voter impersonation was not a problem, but they insisted that the new election laws were necessary to restore confidence—"confidence" that...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...making is a convoluted process. Is that what you were envisioning for these two works? Lawson: That’s exactly how I imagined the pieces would be interpreted. Art and religion can...