Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...for a siege. Jonathan Price passed along rumors that "an old Indian living in the mountains" had assembled a magazine and that Cherokees were supplying fugitive Creeks. He asserted that...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...to appreciate smelly old books, discolored newspapers, and indecipherable manuscripts. I blame my parents—after all, they planted the seed that is now blossoming into full-blown archive fever. #DareToBe promotional materials,...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...a simple three-part statement that argues for positive changes in the academic departments or programs that house these disciplines: An end to the actions that divide creative and critical/academic voices;...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...in public domain. Given this exhaustive historiography, Freeman acknowledges that she did not write a "predatory book" that "devours" extant scholarship. Instead, her work fills an unstudied gap (4), emphasizing...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...to governments answerable to working-class voters. That attitude is still embalmed in the bevy of quasi-public appointive boards and commissions that constitute much of the governance in modern-day New Orleans....
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
Southern Spaces is proud to launch a fresh design for our journal today, stage one in a two-stage rollout of our newly redeveloped publishing platform. The new design emphasizes visual...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...suburb of Lakeview and virtually all of New Orleans East undeveloped at that time, the population density was double that of today. The city's wharves extended upriver from beyond the...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...that represents tangible social change, we focused upon a few key images. Inside, we saw a furnace that was radiating heat. No one seemed aware that this space was still...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...with eight Seminole Indians, who speak "good English;" we are also told that Mrs. Johns knows at least one Seminole phrase, and that any negotiations that take place can be...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Revolution when a handful of prescient leaders in mountain towns of what is today Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina ascertained that the long knife republic was not going to abide...