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Southern Spaces

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

Sapelo Island Flyover

Anthony Martin, Steve Bransford, et al.

St. Catherines Island Flyover

Steve Bransford, Michael Page, et al.

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II

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Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee

Dorothy Moye

Decatur, Georgia

In this online exhibition catalog, Dorothy Moye presents and comments upon the textile art of Gwendolyn Ann Magee (1943–2011), whose extraordinary work includes a series of vivid, often harrowing, narrative quilts based on James Weldon Johnson's anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

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An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America

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Ossabaw Island Flyover

Anthony Martin, Steve Bransford, et al.

The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness

Social Justice Environmentalism

Ellen Griffith Spears

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

John Howard, Eric Solomon, et al.

"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square

Jesse P. Karlsberg and Steve Bransford

Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy

Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami

Julio Capó Jr. and Eric Solomon

Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry

An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

Sharon Bridgforth and E. Patrick Johnson

Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement

Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast

Michele Navakas

Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation

William A. Blair

You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History

Jessica Wilkerson

Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis

Evan C. Rothera

Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston

Daniel A. Pollock

Quilting Conversation

Marquetta Johnson, Michael Moon, et al.

Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930

Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South

Jason Morgan Ward