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

The Shenandoah Valley

...where according to some historians there was less commitment to the Southern cause in the Civil War and even less to the institution of slavery. Historians point to the large...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...

I-26, Corridor of Change

...1/2 hours. Streaming audio and transcription of interview. Source: Documenting the American South, Southern Oral History Program, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-253/menu.html Interview with...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...

Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

...driving black southern music criticism, particularly Peter Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music, limited our ability to appreciate the artistry of black southern performers like Scott-Heron, Bill Withers, and Al Green, among...