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

Birmingham, Alabama images

...1963-- shortly before morning services were to begin--the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton...

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

...cases (26 deaths) of the West Nile virus disease in humans in 43 states so far this year. This number represents the highest total in late August since the CDC...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...South Intersections of music with place, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class Native American musics, Latina/o musics, musics of immigrant groups Local music scenes: punk, hardcore, rock, folk, hip-hop, emerging...

The Change

...to hold a six pack on ice. In the one hundred, fifteen degree   summer heat   with air   so thick with moisture you drink as you breathe. Before the...

Fort Scott newspapers

Fort Scott Daily Monitor. October 7, 1883 "Acquit Him" "From the statements of those present at the killing of McDaniel on the fair ground yesterday, the negro man, May, did...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

...Fifty yards downstream a granite cliff rises two hundred feet into the air to cast this section of river into shadow. She glances back to where her parents and brother...