Talk Radio, D.C.
...fever broke and the fish was all cooked. Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...
Prayer of the Backhanded
...think to say, excuse me. Published in Please (Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, 2009). Published: 4 March 2010 © 2010 Jericho Brown and Southern Spaces...
Congregation
...in the other carry everything else he had. Published in Beyond Katrina (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010). Published: 9 September 2010 © 2010 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...July 25, 1946. In his Southern Spaces essay "'Holding on to Those Who Can't be Held': Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia," Mark Auslander explores the complexities of this ritual performance....
Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937
...more nostalgic images of small farmers in the US South during the 1930s. Arthur Rothstein seems to have taken a particular interest in migrant workers during his time in Winter Haven and Fort...
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...
Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...
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...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
...eighteen turbines and generates a total capacity of twenty-nine megawatts, which is enough to provide power to about 3,800 homes. It is the only windfarm in the southeast United States....
Bear Branch, North Carolina
...for the source of a spring on the highway right-of-way, Bear Branch, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...