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

Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives

...the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University. He has received a number of awards for his photographic work including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,...

Cajun South Louisiana

...ca. 1900. Postcard book by Jean S. Kiesel. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, Cutting sugar cane in Louisiana, ca. 1880–1897. Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Courtesy...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...Civil War Centennial Center, Downtown Richmond, 1962. Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center. No other place embodied that particular spirit of 1961 quite as well as Richmond, the former...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House

...to institutions with long histories of community-building through arts activism and education. In this spirit, we hosted one of our first LiFT gatherings in the Hammonds House Museum. Founded in 1988, the Hammonds House...

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...

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...