The Chesapeake Bay
...in 1600 living in the Chesapeake coastal region. They practiced mixed agriculture, lived in villages, hunted deer in the upper coastal plains and Piedmont, and slashed and burned forests to...
The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...ways. We fervently hope for "a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise."2"About," Black Lives Matter, https://blacklivesmatter.com/about. Southern Spaces is a journal devoted to critically and...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...saying what they had done, and how they would do again what they had done, because he had not given up, for he was alive, and she was alive, and...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...to open Pulse. In remembering him and honoring the life he lived, Poma established Pulse in 2004, named "for John's heartbeat" and a place where "he is kept alive in...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...returned to New Orleans to uncertain employment and housing options. All of the evacuees we interviewed lived in Section 8 apartment complexes in West Columbia. And all but one were...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...We end our conversation remembering and honoring the forty-nine lives lost at the Pulse nightclub shooting in central Florida. Convoluted Beginnings: Heterize, Placebo, "Closeted" Convoluted #2, Orlando, Florida, 2016. Photograph...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...he was murdered look back at his death and the acquittal of his killers as a formative moment in their lives, from Anne Moody to Muhammad Ali, from Stokely Carmichael...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the Sand Mountain Region Many of the audio selections in this piece are performed by the Wootten family, most of whom live in north Alabama. Many hail from the Sand...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...and New Mexico, 1800–1850 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 37. Wahlstrom's research makes clear that the US-Mexico War did not diminish economic and settlement patterns. Instead, ex-Confederate migration mapped...