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

Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World

Review   In this impressive volume edited by Cécile Vidal a collection of historians seek to recover a "marginalized" past (16) within American history. Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World...

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...

The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies

...Mississippi Valley Division, "Mississippi River and Tributaries Project," http://www.mvd.usace.army.mil/About/MississippiRiverCommission%28MRC%29/MississippiRiverTributariesProject%28MRT%29.aspx. Many disagree and argue that by altering the natural hydrological regime and boosting development on the flood-prone areas, federal flood control...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...every burden her life had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. August, 1959: Morning Service   Beside...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/94513504/. Right, Major General Andrew Jackson, Philadelphia, ca. 1820. Portrait by Thomas Sully, engraving by James B. Longacre. Courtesy of the Library...