Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...parade, McClellanville, South Carolina, 2010. Low Country African American social life remains centered around churches and there is a strong spiritual camaraderie between car club members. As prescribed in the...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...and the US South offers a collective possibility for agricultural sustainability, an exchange that must overcome boundaries between nations. Acknowledgments The authors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of researcher Hope Shand...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...1930s Lee's biographer and the editor of the Richmond News Leader, Douglas Southall Freeman, lived just a few blocks from the monument. Freeman placed Lee at the center of his...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Southern History 84, no. 3 (August 2018): 579–614; Sharla Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002); Todd Savitt...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Douglas Gomery explains, de facto racial segregation in movie theaters was common outside the South as well, but was dictated more by "residential patterns of use." Some southern locales contained...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...the South at between 10 and 12 percent in 1860, although the product of mixed-race unions constituted more significant proportions of city dwellers: 39 percent of free blacks and 20...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/same-sex-intimacy-fiction-about-southern-plantations. Chenault, Wesley, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr. "Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces." Southern Spaces, February 26, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/discursive-memorials-queer-histories-atlantas-public-spaces. Chesnut, Saralyn, Amanda C. Gable, and Elizabeth...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...16, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/back-future-mapping-workers-across-global-south. Hill, Sarah H. "Cherokee Removal Scenes: Elijay, Georgia, 1838." Southern Spaces, August 23, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838. Kirpalani, Neeta and Emily Jackson. "Birth Right." Southern Spaces, January 12, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/birth-right...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...nation's bloodiest conflict, ensued in the South as a "War Between the States"—language that sustained the claim that southern states were not rebelling against the nation but were defending their...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...plays a prominent role, not only because of the city's central east-west geographic location in the continental United States and its north-south location equidistant between Toronto, Canada, and Monterrey, Mexico,...