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...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Paul Cox, Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany (New York: Scientific American Library, 1996). Ozarkers harvest spring culinary greens, in this approximate order: 1) watercress (Nasturtium officinale), sticky...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
Southern Spaces is now offering authors the option of distributing new work published in the journal under a Creative Commons license. Beginning in 2014, in addition to retaining copyright of...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...By emphasizing the biological diversity, beauty, and value of these remarkable forests, this book will help readers "gain a new appreciation for the wonders of the longleaf forest" (x). Hopefully...
Deep Ellum Blues
...trying to get to something like the newly developed Quadrangle, an elegant new shopping development just a few blocks away in the Oak Lawn district. Perhaps a wrong turn was...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...study of how these new relationships worked themselves out, how an urban area became the frontier of racial policy in the New South. Atlanta lies in the southwestern end of...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...of the same tools stay in its toolbox, but these digital methods add a new dimension to what our goals have always been. Digital History and the "Virginia Diaspora" What...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Mexican government, ranging from the Mexican state's abolishment of slavery in 1829 to its prohibition of new Anglo settlers in 1830.4The newly independent Mexican government began as the First Empire...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...and marriage between blacks and whites that threatened to undermine the colony's socioeconomic and political order. Code noir, enacted by Louis XIV in 1685. 1743 re-edition courtesy of Wikimedia Commons....
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...History of the Shadow (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002), 27. Still from Beasts of the Southern Wild, Twentieth Century Fox, 2012. Beasts of the Southern Wild is about...