Southern Spaces Recommends
...lesser-studied works. Robert Fieseler's Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation captures with precision the narratives around the New Orleans fire...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...effectively nurtured Confederate national identity by obscuring, even denying, the particularities of the local. Not so the occasional poetry appearing in Confederate newspapers, the subject of Hutchison's third chapter. This...
Leavenworth newspaper
...employed by the old ku-klux gangs of Georgia. He was severely chastised for a small offence by a crowd of white men. As soon as the facts came out a...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...block the enforcement of the new law. African American legislators in Arkansas have compared the new law to the poll taxes used in southern states during the Jim Crow era....
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...country road in middle Tennessee and inmates at the Riverbend Prison near Nashville. "Brother Will, as he was called by so many of us who knew him, made his own...
New Orleans, Louisiana images
New Orleans, Louisiana: Intersection of St. Louis and Royal, French Quarter Signs of the tourist trade are evident in the French Quarter, even in the early morning hours. College Boys,...
Street scene, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1935
Ben Shahn, Street scene, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1935. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-006097-M3....
Louisiana National Guardmen observe as water from the industrial canal overtops the levees, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2008
Chuck Simmins, Louisiana National Guardmen observe as water from the industrial canal overtops the levees, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2008. The Louisiana National Guard set up a road block in...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Altidor. Photo by Jerry Berndt. Courtesy of New York University Press. Crossing the Water and Keeing the Faith opens with a vivid description of Alex Jean Altidor's prominent mural at...
New Website for Music Memory
...a new project which would create a digital repository of historical sound recordings—accompanied by discographical information, music notation, lyrics, and biographical information about artists and composers—to make available the tens...