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

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...Map by Richard Campanella. Originally published in Richard Campanella's Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans (University of Louisiana Press, 2008). Campanella’s map of flood depths uses approximately the...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...and social event emphasizing participation, not performance, where people sing from a tunebook called The Sacred Harp, printed in music notation using four shaped notes. Since the nineteenth century, Sacred...

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

Blog Post Detail of Ashley's Sack, Charleston, South Carolina, 2016. Photograph courtesy of the Middleton Place Foundation. "Ashley's Sack" is among the most resonant and enigmatic artifacts on display in...