The Carolina Piedmont
Landscape and Settlement As pioneers, traders, and military men traversed the region in the early eighteenth century, they found the towns of Catawba, Saponi, and Saura Indians and trading paths...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...
Southern Spaces Recommends
Blog Post Eric Solomon, "Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces" series editor: I've been on a reading streak the past few months. Here are a few I recommend. In terms of...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...
A Mess of Poke
Essay If some of y’all never been down South too much, I’m gonna tell you a little bit about this, so that you’ll understand what I’m talking about Down there...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
Introduction Map of Major Indian Tribes in the "South,"circa 1750 I borrow only my title from Alfred Kazin's 1942 study On Native Grounds, an influential reading of modern American prose...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
Index of exhibitions on the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI) homepage. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. The Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI) is an online public history project hosted by...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
Introduction Since the 1980s, various individuals and publics have dedicated memorials to LGBTQ communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. Among them are George Segal's...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
Introduction By offering new tools to develop research questions, analyze data, and publish findings, digital mapping is transforming the humanities. During the spring of 2016, Emory University's "MAP IT |...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
Women's Space, Queer Space: Communes, Landykes, and Queer Contact Zones in the Lesbian Feminist South The middle-aged man sitting in the row in front of me shoved his wife's arm...