The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...regarding sustainability in agriculture which the authors of our two featured Southern Spaces essays explore. Charles D. Thompson, Jr. describes the local conditions for the growth of sustainable agriculture in...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...the potential benefits of Open Access. Because Southern Spaces is an open access journal, we thought that it would be appropriate for us to share the details of a recent legal...
Visualizing Spatial History: The Example of Rio de Janeiro
Presentation Part 2: Frank provides an overview of the Stanford Spatial History Project Part 3: Frank discusses creating visualizations that evoke patterns and varieties of spatial mobility, consciousness, and power...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
Review Max Grivno's subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason Dixon Line, 1790–1860, details...
New Website for Music Memory
In April 2012, Southern Spaces published an interview with Lance Ledbetter, founder of Dust-to-Digital Records, in which he discussed the operations of his Atlanta-based record label. During the interview, Ledbetter mentioned...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...history, and the first African American Senator from a southern state since Blanche Bruce (R-Mississippi) served from 1875 to 1881. He will also be the first African American Senator from...
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
...sketch in the Montgomery Advertiser by Erica Pippins. See David J. Garrow, "The Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott," Southern Changes 7, no. 5 (1985), for an overview of the WPC’s role in the...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...stops feature musics with historical ties to the town and region, and present-day roots in the area. In Laurie K. Sommers’ Southern Spaces article, “Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in...
Bear Branch, North Carolina
...for I-26 construction, Bear Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist Jody Kuhne on site, Bear Branch, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drilling for the...
"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...