University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...outside Yoknapatawpha) that appear in the novel. Clicking on any of the map's icons brings up additional information. Screenshot by Stephen Railton, 2014. Courtesy of Digital Yoknapatawpha Project. Part of...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...to home, are linguistically bereft: there is no term to describe the successful interface of natural and built environs. Outside cities, we have any number of categories for describing natural...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...Americas, its historical ties to French, Spanish, and British imperial projects, and its discourse of both cultural distinctiveness and interconnectedness, is an ideal subject for this approach. As an exercise...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...convincing poor whites that enslaving African Americans was in their best interests. Jennison surveys white Georgians' opinions on racial and class divisions to great effect, mining the 1852 and 1853...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...seen, we know that so much more went on just in this one place, and will continue to, day after day. The camera appears to drift through the air, handing...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...application for a political appointment as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in 1985, he wrote, "In college, I developed a deep interest in constitutional law, motivated in large part by disagreement...
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...undergo a rigorous internal review process. Publication Types Southern Spaces publishes eight different genres of scholarship: articles, interviews, photo and media essays, videos, presentations, reviews, blog posts, and monographs. The best...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...flood control. As the inadequacy of this approach for successful prevention of overflows became evident, state and federal governments began to assume more control. Beginning with Robert W. Harrison, numerous...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...other ones do. Martin: Right. That was one of the aspects that I appreciated is that you had to toggle back and forth between each of the images to appreciate...