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

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...the convention. When yellow fever receded from northern port cities after 1800, “Charleston proved to be a better host than those places,” McCandless quips, “in part because it was warmer...

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...nonwhites from the record. Regardless of his singular focus, Jennison makes clear that by 1800, Georgia's conservative revolutionaries could broaden their perspective when confronted by the distressing message, reach, and...

The Carolina Piedmont

...by trekking inland from the Atlantic, but by following the Great Wagon Road down the Valley of Virginia past already-claimed land in Pennsylvania. Farm families along the banks of the...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...Wim Wenders handled the fourth episode, The Soul of a Man (2003), devoted to his three favorite blues artists: Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, and J.B. Lenoir. Wenders' film, however,...

A Mess of Poke

...favorite dire warning comes from Wikipedia: The eating of limited quantities of poke, perhaps of the shoots, may cause retching or vomiting after two hours or more. These signs may...