Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...was a "materialist and armed community," and the US military services forcefully demonstrated their reach in the last decade of the century.33David Armitage, Thomas Bender, Leslie Butler, Don H. Doyle,...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Haenhel Building and the Arnold Bakery, which were refurbished and rented to businesses. The next projects were larger live-and-work facilities featuring retail on the ground floor with living spaces above...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...multiple uses, as livestock feed and human food, medicine, dye, clothing, storage, cordage, etc.10M.A. Altieri, Agroecology: The Scientific Basis of Alternative Agriculture (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995). Shand, Human Nature. ...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...documentary film about mountaintop removal in West Virginia called Black Diamonds – she lived in Baltimore while she made it and lives in Philadelphia now, but she feels a profound...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...already, in the antebellum era, opossum consumption factored into a display of racial domination. Hunting methods, such as capturing opossums live to fatten at home and clean out their digestive...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
The largest proportion of LGBTQ+ Americans—thirty-five percent—live in the southeastern states from Maryland and West Virginia down to Texas and Oklahoma.1Amira Hasenbush, Andrew R. Flores, Angeliki Kastanis, Brad Sears, and...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
County White Alone, #, 2000 White Alone, %, 2000 Black Alone, #, 2000 Black Alone, %, 2000 Chattahoochee 8,643 58.08 4,453 29.92 Clay 1,290 38.43 2,030 60.47 Decatur 16,126...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...mapped onto an entire people. Pamini, for example, was a female Yspo leader who lived near Santa Catalina in the early 1670s. We know very little about the Yspo—they were...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Georgia, points out, drive-in theaters were designed "to accommodate the automobile first and the customer second," and were usually located with access to major transportation routes. Drive-ins predated shopping malls...