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

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...from Fauquier County, Virginia, sometime before 1800. A Baptist minister, he married a Miss Stringfellow, and they had eight children. Their son Silas was born in 1800. In 1825 Silas...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...frame and explored violence directed against racial and ethnic groups other than African Americans.2See William D. Carrigan and Christopher Waldrep, eds., Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective (Charlottesville:...

Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World

...Richard Weyhing is an assistant professor of history at State University of New York at Oswego specializing in early American history, Native American history, and history of the Atlantic World....

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...author of Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution (Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2017). Earlier in his career, Suitts served as...

CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

Commentary Multiple COVID-19 waves have left in their wake compelling evidence of long overlooked gaps in pandemic readiness and responsiveness. The primary lesson for the US public health and healthcare...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...cover and content page from The Fifth London Festival of American Music program featuring The Crossing, libretto by Joan Anim-Addo. The art that chooses us, I suggest, carries its own...

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...make people aware of past injustices.1Karen Halttunen, “Groundwork: American Studies in Place—Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 4, 2005,” American Quarterly, 58.1 (March 2006), 1-15. This is very...