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

The Shenandoah Valley

...Illustration. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-286d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. Sheridan's raid went into local history as "the burning." Far...

States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act

...http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Redistricting-debate-hears-new-argument-4655908.php. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange called the decision "an important victory for the fundamental constitutional principle that all states enjoy equal sovereignty."15"AG Strange Praises the US Supreme Court for...

The Liminal Site

...Absalom! In William Faulkner, Novels 1936–1940, ed. by Joseph Blotner and Noel Polk (New York: Library of America, 1990), 111. Edward O. Wilson claims we are hardwired to want to live...

Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)

Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...it was a process of affirmation and bringing the Jones family closer together. As for audiences for The Joneses, Jheri was flown to New York and San Francisco for the...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...America; one document tells of a black fife and drum corps playing for a Confederate regiment."29Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began (New York: The New Press,1993), 333. "Every...