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

St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History

...protests. Largely ignored by locals and overlooked by tourists, the market sits empty in the center of America’s oldest continuously inhabited, European-established city. Despite its changing purposes, it remains best...

Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces

...commission, produce and present the most important, ground-breaking, challenging, and exceptional art of our times." Creative Time's projects are almost exclusively temporary.2Creative Time, "About Creative Time," Creative Time, Inc., http://www.creativetime.org/about/index.html...

Cajun South Louisiana

...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...

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

...February 6, 1837, accessed, August 22, 2013, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/slavery-a-positive-good/. Calhoun developed a theory of state sovereignty called "nullification" as the South faced mounting opposition to slavery every time Congress considered acquiring new...

The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

...more time and effort. We would love to use many different categories and to attach these categories to characters and locations, but it boils down to issues of time and...

Good-Bye to All That?

...in their commercials, she had supported the president "96 percent of the time." But in local races where Obama's name was seldom mentioned, the results were the same. There were...