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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...slaves were in fact other migrants who had established themselves over a number of years" (223). This admission leaves readers wondering what Pargas might have gleaned had he approached his...

Writing Appalachia

...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...from his hair on the steps of local churches. Maybe it was the end of many letters, the last of hospital days, another sleight to make his hand come alive...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...back never had an older woman fend for me before defended plenty though guess it’s fair in all Union guys they just pull in and pull back like a boxer...

Making History

...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...

Sweep

...Hammond, who will think too slowly and turn his Air Force jet into the Arizona desert, and Don Appleton, who will drive out on a country road for a shotgun...

The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]

...advertised his cleaning and repair service: "Bring in your sewing machines and have them made good as new." The fabric on the back of the Tulip quilt is a fine...

Atchison newspaper

...the action as disgraceful, and within a few weeks the entire affair will be forgotten. This is a way Americans have. The pulpits will ring with denunciation, and the people...

Lawrence newspaper

...a family affair, and if they don’t keep their hands out of it, Kansas is likely to back Leavenworth up to sail in and do it again. Kansas demands for...

Junction City newspaper

Junction City Tribune. "The Exodus." May 1, 1879. "Beneath the surface of this whole affair, however, there is a quiet practical joke. For years the north has complained that the...