Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Montgomery to Birmingham; from Birmingham to Atlanta; from Atlanta down the west coast of Florida to Key West and up the east coast of Florida to Savannah and then home...
Religion and the US South
...justify slavery, as part of their defense against abolitionist criticism. One strain of the proslavery argument saw southern society as the last bulwark against an inhumane industrial order that had...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Mask": To hide from his closest friends, from suspicion by the world! Hide it he must. Accounted a diseased human thing, an outcast from men, a beast . . ....
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...Southern Spaces operated with stand-alone, static pages using Dreamweaver. Media was stored in wmv and mov files and to implement Google Analytics, we added the Google snippet to the JavaScript...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...term for such all-out hostility was "massive resistance." Fred Stroud leads protest against desegregation, Nashville, TN, 1957. © Nashville Public Library. A special pre-registration of first graders was announced for August...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...for nearly fifty years. Instead, this singing community became more insular and tied to Primitive Baptist beliefs, especially those of the Crawfordites, the most conservative of local subsects who take...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Southern studies, at least in its more traditional manifestations, and studies of immigration to the South are also driven by different political projects. Southern studies operates through a powerful discursive...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...Choice Bills,” Reason, Jan. 22, 2023, https://reason.com/2023/01/22/virginia-is-considering-4-different-school-choice-bills/; Megan Pauly, “Wealthiest Virginians are benefiting most from contributions to school voucher program,” VPM News, July 11, 2022, https://www.vpm.org/news/2022-07-11/wealthiest-virginians-are-benefiting-most-from-contributions-to-school-voucher/. In Mississippi, once the...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...challenges—from proliferating slave insurgencies to vocal liberal-abolitionist mobilization. But along industrial plantations' margins, vast and socially vibrant free rural communities of African descent made homes for themselves against many odds....
Editorial Style Guide
...are usually used. number of international unions 8; total number of women: 79 When to spell out numbers Spell out numbers from one through one hundred and approximate numbers. It...