Southern Spaces | An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the US South and their global connections

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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

Southern Spaces invites scholars, critics, writers, artists, and musicians to submit essays, photo essays, music essays, original documentaries, and digital projects for a new series Music and the US South. Deadline: March 17, 2014.

Visualizing Spatial History: The Example of Rio de Janeiro

In this presentation, Zephyr Frank reviews the work of the Stanford Spatial History Project and ponders the possibilities and challenges of Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS), using examples of visualizations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia

Scott Nesbit analyzes migration and marriage patterns of recently freed men and women in post-Emancipation Virginia, including an interactive map that organizes migration and marriage data of former slaves.