"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...into ritual and reenactment from Pete Richardson and Rick Parmentier. I also am grateful for careful readings by Allen Tullos, the Southern Spaces editorial staff, and the anonymous readers for Southern Spaces. ...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
In November of 2011 I wrote for Southern Spaces on the first Ireland Sacred Harp Convention, a key marker and catalyst of the growing presence of Sacred Harp singing in...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
...video producer at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Public Health in the US and Global South is a collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications examining the relationship between public health and...
New Shades o'Death Creek
Excerpt Set in West Virginia, this excerpt from Giardina's novel of time-space travel, Fallam's Secret (2003), evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountaintop removal in the southern Appalachians. On...
Sowing The Seed Underground
...writing program at Chatham University. She has published poetry and non-fiction books, including Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (1999). Ray lives and works on a family farm in southern Georgia....
Birdhouses
...significance. Having lived my life in the US South, growing up in rural South Carolina as a descendent of generations of subsistence farmers on both sides of my family, I...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Theories of Time and Space
Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...
Victoria
...where half a dozen drag queens had transformed the space into a temporary dressing room. Eventually the lights dimmed and the queens paraded out one by one. Victoria emerged between...