Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...
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...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...dehumanization. Der Schlangenbandiger (The Snake Charmer), illustrated in this print, became a mid-twentieth-century Mami Wata icon. Chromolithograph reprinted by the Shree Ram Calendar Company, Bombay, India, 1955. Originally printed by...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...South, 2010. Troubled Ground is an excellent addition to this subgenre. Beautifully narrated, it is rich in detail and nuance, while also attentive to the larger context surrounding the story....
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...is that monster, the horrifying and grotesque, and yet also strangely romantic space of American racial fantasy. Like anyone else who has studied the history of the US South, when...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...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...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...(Norton, 2000), among others. Rankin writes frequently about photography and the documentary tradition and his photographs have been widely exhibited. Publication Update In January 2019, Southern Spaces updated this publication as part...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...Lewis's "Going South Coming, North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee," and Jarod Roll's "'Out Yonder on the Road': Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast...