Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Burning bright, Tysons Corner, Virginia, 2009
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Peter Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville" Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...the narrative we tend to tell. Lurking beneath the surface of many histories of environmentalism is the conflict between the movement's different strands, particularly between environmental justice organizations, radical wilderness...
Finding Media
Finding media is a big issue for us here at Southern Spaces. We’re constantly searching for new photographers to highlight in our Featured Images section, and we’re often tasked with...
At Cornwall Furnace
...confluence of the Coosa and Chatooga, mud ebbs from a bed of scoria, slag I can find in channels miles south. Algae homes in its pocks. The friend who has...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...when he couldn't bring some Southron home. I see him there remembering his poems, his back to the door, singing out to the garden of the world, the tropical spring...
In the Magic City
...from the strings like something's coiled up there, a static even Elvin never shakes. Or maybe what the needle thinks, some Old South air trapped in ladled steel,...
Geography
...years: he’s smaller, his voice lost in the distance between us. 3. On the Gulf and Ship Island Line my father and I walk the rails south toward town....
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 on Mississippi 49, one— by-one mile...