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

Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery

Peter McCandless

Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston

Daniel A. Pollock

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

Lydia A. Harris

Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion

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Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland

George Philip LeBourdais

Stanford University

George Philip LeBourdais discusses the work of painter and photographer William Bradford who explored the Arctic in 1869 and subsequently published his account of the journey in The Arctic Regions in 1873.

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Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

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McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America

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Reckoning with Enslavement

William G. Thomas III

Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980

When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

Claudrena N. Harold

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Writing Appalachia: An Excerpt

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"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic

Eric Solomon and Forrest Lawson

Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects

Staff and Editorial Board

The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education

New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement

Robert Gioielli

"To the White People of America" (1854)

Jesse P. Karlsberg

Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives

Staff and Editorial Board

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

Grace Elizabeth Hale

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