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

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...have two grindstones. One involves interfacing with a machine in ways that are sometimes difficult and tedious, much like archival work. Sometimes we are wrestling with code and how to...

"Aint that Something?"

Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...came to describe Irish immigrant sailors whose jig dance was known as 'the buck.'"27Dance Teacher Magazine, www.dance-teacher.com. George Mitchell discusses the buck dancing tradition of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley. Recorded...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...stereotypes than medical knowledge. Irish immigrants brought cholera, while Jewish ones infected New Yorkers with typhus. Riots erupted as a result of perceptions that Chinese men spread venereal disease. These...