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

Watching the Surface for a Sign

Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...

Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina

...Sprinkle Creek with NCDOT geologist, Rick Lockamy, to conduct core rock sampling, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 2994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist, Rick Lochamy, studying maps in preparation for...

CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

Commentary Multiple COVID-19 waves have left in their wake compelling evidence of long overlooked gaps in pandemic readiness and responsiveness. The primary lesson for the US public health and healthcare...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...unacknowledged environmentalism. When the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) campaigned to desegregate the bus system and open jobs to black citizens in Alabama's capital city, five of the organization's eight primary...