MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
Introduction By offering new tools to develop research questions, analyze data, and publish findings, digital mapping is transforming the humanities. During the spring of 2016, Emory University's "MAP IT |...
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...about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections. We intend our audience to be researchers and teachers, students in and out of classrooms,...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
Essay In one of the stranger scenes of this year's presidential campaign marathon, a dozen Gees Bend quilters joined hands with candidate John McCain, singing "Old Ship of Zion" as...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
Excerpt Any collection that aims, as this one does, to represent the upheaval and diversity of a field that is remaking itself must confront at the outset the difficulties posed...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
Introduction Peggy Winn had every reason to believe freedom meant stability for her family, stability in a new place. Under slavery, she had lived in the southern section of Albemarle...
The Civil Rights Archive
Video Part 2: Dr. Patton explains the layout of Trenholm State's Civil Rights Archive and addresses obstacles she encountered...
Mississippi: State of Confession
Review The Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum mock-up from the 2 Mississippi Museums Project Fact Sheet, 2013. Mississippi says it is ready to confess some...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
Essay Map of Alabama with percentage of white population. Map based on image courtesy of Social Explorer. Seven years ago, as I sat doing research at the historical society of...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
On June 25, 2013 Chief Justice John Roberts invalidated the application of Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act in a five to four opinion of the US Supreme...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...