Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
Review Max Grivno's subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason Dixon Line, 1790–1860, details...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...time. The photograph appears as if it was framed and shot by Christenberry but processed and printed by Doris Ulmann, or some other pictorialist photographer, in the early twentieth-century. Burning...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...she was listed as a sixty-nine-year-old “servant” in the home of Frank Woodruff, in the town of Woodruff. On August 4, 1927, J. R. Snoddy noted in his journal that...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...attentiveness to landscapes and ecologies in Southern Studies and environmental history is more complex. Historian Barbara J. Fields argued at a conference of southern regionalist historians in the late 1990s...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...list of actors and moments through which, "every so often," compassionate people in particular places call upon their "fundamental goodness to make this country great again:" "that band of patriots...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“My dad is from Prague and my mom from Puerto Rico,” “I am from Jutiapa, El Progresso, Guatemala!” The lists of names and places turn into longer narratives of immigration....
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...Yardley down," and because this metaphor makes no sense to his listener, he obligingly goes into more detail: "Fixin her fur rotten cumfurtably, kiverin her up wif sile, tu keep...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...her life), an article that traces the landscapes and characters of her life as they emerge in her letters, a discussion of her importance to novelist Alice Walker in a...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Hearn, a peripatetic journalist who did stints in Cincinnati and New Orleans before moving to Japan in the early 1890s. Born in 1850 on an Ionian island to a Greek...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...examines visual representations of lynching and the construction of white supremacy in the Jim Crow era. Lynching and Spectacle won the Lillian Smith Book Award and was a finalist for...