Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the singing schools as crude. Musicians such as Lowell Mason (1792-1872) began an ardent campaign against the singing schools and the kind of music they promoted. Mason and the "better...
Catastrophe and Hope: Martyn Bone’s The Writings of Jesmyn Ward
...crises” (27). These tensions—between the local and global, and between the particularity of racial capitalism in the Gulf South next to conversations about how regions are imagined by a writer often deemed...
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...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...across the South well before then. Writing in 1891, Black academic William Scarborough described one of the New South's most unpleasant innovations as the "the novelty of three waiting rooms—one...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...Eng Bunker. Courtesy of the Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Then there were other stories about often-poisoned relations between...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...