Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing...
Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Duke University with Alexander Stephens, Marian Cheek Jackson Center Overview In this photo essay and accompanying text, Charles D. Thompson, Jr. meets Cuban farmers, explores...
View Article"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
Ruthie Yow, Yale University Overview Ruthie Yow draws on her oral history work with Virginia Ward, the first black student at Pebblebrook High School in Cobb County, Georgia, to examine class dynamics...
View ArticleStill under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers...
John Lane, Wofford College Overview In the late 1970s, poet John Lane left his hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina and settled in Port Townsend, Washington where he befriended a collection of poets...
View ArticleThe World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Darren E. Grem, Emory University Overview In this presentation from February 15, 2012 at Emory University, Darren E. Grem examines the connections between evangelicalism and capitalism at the...
View ArticleBrown, Black, and White in Texas
Brent M. S. Campney, The University of Texas-Pan American Overview Brent M. S. Campney reviews Brian D. Behnken's Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for...
View ArticleDriving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
Rob Amberg, Madison County, North Carolina Overview Rob Amberg reviews Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, a website published by Documenting the American South...
View Article"Our Country"—A Review and Excerpt from Benjamin E. Wise, William Alexander...
John Howard, King's College London Overview John Howard reviews Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker (University of North...
View ArticleRecording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of...
Lance Ledbetter, Dust-to-Digital Records Overview Southern Spaces interviews Lance Ledbetter at his home, which also houses Dust-to-Digital Records, in Atlanta, Georgia, March 13, 2012. Ledbetter...
View ArticleLynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
Amy Louise Wood, Illinois State University Overview Amy Louise Wood reviews Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South by Claude A. Clegg, III (University of Illinois...
View ArticleDemon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
Gary R. Mormino, University of South Florida St. Petersburg Overview Gary R. Mormino reviews Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1821–1920 by Lee L. Willis...
View ArticleTelling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
Jesse Freeman, Filmmaker Overview In his 2010 documentary, Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story, Jesse Freeman explores the life and death of Georgia novelist Raymond Andrews....
View Article"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian...
Sarah Quigley, Manuscript Archivist at Emory University Overview In 2007, Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) acquired the records of the Southern Christian...
View ArticleScales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
Scott Nesbit, University of Richmond Overview Scott Nesbit reviews Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790–1860 (University of Illinois Press, 2011) by Max Grivno....
View ArticleForgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
Elizabeth Engelhardt, University of Texas at Austin Overview Drawing from the archives of North Carolina garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–1985), southern state market bulletins, and letters from...
View ArticleUncovering Confederate Literary Nationalism: A Review of Coleman Hutchison's...
Robert K. Nelson, University of Richmond Overview Robert K. Nelson reviews Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America (University of Georgia Press, 2012) by...
View ArticleA Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
Katherine Mooney, Yale University Overview Katherine Mooney reviews The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans (Harvard University Press, 2012) by Lawrence N. Powell. read more
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No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political...
Lynn Weber, University of South Carolina Overview Lynn Weber writes about the challenges faced by Hurricane Katrina evacuees displaced to Columbia and West Columbia, South Carolina, in this essay...
View ArticleCherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
Sarah H. Hill, Independent Scholar Overview What happened when the United States set about to remove the entire Cherokee Nation from the South? Who were the participants and how did they proceed? To...
View ArticleDirty Little Story
Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Columnist Overview Rheta Grimsley Johnson recounts a visit to a trash-covered beach on Pickwick Lake near Fish Trap Hollow in northeastern Mississippi in this short essay. read...
View ArticleFlit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Tom Rankin, Duke University Overview Tom Rankin reviews Chuck Thompson's new book Better off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession (Simon and Shuster, 2012). read more
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