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

Unquiet Emmett Till

...attorneys were rushed (the trial took place three weeks after the murder), had inadequate resources, made mistakes, but clearly they wanted convictions, and wanted them badly. Why did they not...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...Crespino, eds., The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). It is through this myth that non-southerners have projected national sins, particularly racial sins, upon the South....

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...unknown immigrant in the Shenandoah Valley in 1847. Drawing upon a deep trove of artifacts from the Virginia Board of Immigration (founded after the Civil War and run by Polish...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...of the "moral community" of border people. Some worked intentionally to evade criminal sanction, not revenue collection. Cattle rustlers in the late nineteenth century, along with bootleggers and drug runners...