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

Whiskey and Geography

Shooting Creek Making Whiskey in the Backcountry Whiskey making, while rare in southern England, was highly developed in both Scotland and Ireland by the time of the Ulster emigration. We...

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...

Seneca Quarry

...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...2015. Bottom, lighthouse on Sapelo Island, Georgia, 2015. Screenshots courtesy of Southern Spaces. Perhaps the most scientifically significant legacy of Sapelo is its birthing of modern ecology, much of which...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...in Mexico displays the predictable symptoms of previous drug wars from Southeast Asia to Colombia, including law enforcement's preoccupation with "kingpins," a strong government preference for criminal justice and military...

Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.

...3-D format, Kennedy also creates posters featuring tongue-in-cheek phrases about southern cultures and identities. In 2014, Southern Spaces published a blog post about Kennedy's "Burnt Church," an artist book inspired by a series...

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...results portray Atlanta as divided into three sections that vote very differently: the South Side, Middle Atlanta, and the North Side. South Side voters tend to be Democrats and members...