Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...the 1990s. We are grateful for careful editorial work on this post by Allen Tullos and the Southern Spaces team. Appendices Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...intelligence. His fellow bibliophiles shared his sense of purpose, but Schomburg appears to have had the most comprehensive approach to using his collection as a resource in shaping public understanding...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color,...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...sense, Black Geographies fundamentally asks what may count as a “real” map and, more importantly, what forms of power and privilege the designation of “map” bestows on the objects it...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...to settlement in the southernmost United States. Rippley, however, apparently didn't consider the term within the parlance of the era.10La Vern J. Rippley, The German Americans (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers,...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
The Liminal Site
...and neighborhood and second-growth woods that seem much older. More: Red Mountain is almost the last ridge of the great Appalachians running nearly the length of the eastern United States....
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...character would say.” Antoinette Locklear Hurtt as "Connie" The person who did the most ad libbing was Antoinette Locklear Hurtt, who played Connie. And she got a best supporting actor...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...a family of apparently fairly well-to-do drapers. He studied for the ministry at the University of Glasgow, emigrated to America in 1750, and became a protégé of an important New...