Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016), 3–4, 11–13. In a longer history, Cherokees arrived in the southern Appalachians about four-thousand years ago, having...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...in here. More than abstract appreciation, you experience Key West's "One Human Family" philosophy in action. The next day you awake in your bungalow, refreshed. You walk across the mile-wide...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...of approaches for joining geo-spatial analysis and humanistic inquiry. The media-rich lectures published here by Southern Spaces offer fresh perspectives on landscape photography, soundscapes, cities, spheres of cultural influence, and...
Zircon
...Appalachian State, and East Carolina universities. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Morgan was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010. Born on October 3,...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...Kongo simbi provide an interpretive key through which to understand the white bundles and babies that appear in Lowcountry African Americans' Christian conversion experiences, or "seeking" rituals.15Ibid., 242, 245. Brown...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...in the South and changing understandings of authenticity. Miller avoids the familiar approaches to the study of "southern music" in which scholars focus on a particular genre or kind of...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...GED or college programs while in prison, may be more prepared to face the obstacles outside. More and more obstructions to employment continue to appear in legislation. Alabama is among...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Charles J. Dean, "McCain Visits Gees Bend Quilters," Birmingham News, April 21, 2008. Besides the Black Belt gig, a T-shirt for the Forgotten Places Tour would have read: Appalachia; Youngstown,...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...includes transcripts and rich metadata for easy querying of the approximately 2400 ads. Additonally, project staff have provided some brief historical context for researchers. Samantha Winer, a digitization and transcription assistant, writes...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...explained the difficulty house slaves had navigating the steep, narrow, and dark back staircase carrying large trays or other awkward and heavy objects. Apparently visitors reacted positively to observations that...