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

Palomares Bajo

...a no-contact policy with townsfolk, a formula for global speculation and local resentment. "Little heed to the outside world"? Little knowledge of Cold War geopolitics? "The whole subject ... an...

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...

Cajun South Louisiana

...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...his reading, "no compelling historical evidence" supports the legend of the trial by ordeal; he argues that Woodmason, had the story circulated in his time, would surely have used it...