You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...since the 1960s, many locations in the Appalachian South, like rural and working-class communities across the nation, have experienced the rise of extreme economic inequality, and a growing divide between...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...promoting equity. Dan T. Carter, who wrote Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, the definitive account of the trials, sounded a similar theme in his keynote address, urging those...
View from giant sombrero, South of the Border, South Carolina, 2007
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...media. It pairs very nicely with Anna Creadick's 2017 Southern Cultures article "Banjo Boy: Masculinity, Disability, and Difference in Deliverance." Recently Published at Southern Spaces "Writing Appalachia: An Excerpt" by...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Confederate History Month pronouncements, and reenactments of Jefferson Davis’s inauguration steal headlines. It is hard to read the mind of this South. Richmond Times-Dispatch, Display at the Civil War Centennial...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...that eschew drinking, card playing, gambling, and other activities considered outside the realm of Christian behavior.6Charles Reagan Wilson, "Overview: Religion and the US South," Southern Spaces, March 16, 2004, https://southernspaces.org/2004/religion-and-us-south/....
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...the southern land and its history. My series have dealt with Civil War landscapes, southern rivers, southern ruins and the Carolina Low Country. My method of working is to use...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...classic "Don't Take Her, She's All I've Got." In 1969 Chuck moved to Macon, Georgia, where southern music impresario Phil Walden had recently opened Capricorn Records and studio. There he...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...New County Railroad and Distance Map of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina" [c. 1875] Detail from South Carolina Map. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. [c. 1892] Detail from "South...