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

Local Color

...that local color writing first articulated for American audiences. From William Faulkner in the Delta to Flannery O'Connor in middle Georgia to Lee Smith in the Appalachians, the South's best...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993) and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (Norton, 2000). Forthcoming books include A...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...Tennessee onto existing US 23 in North Carolina, Sams Gap, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Howard and Yvonda Jenkin’s nursery at Sams Gap that had to be moved...

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...study literature, history, or other humanities—and use computers to do so—are folded into existing disciplines. Andrew J. Torget: I agree with Scott. I think that there will always be a...

A City Divided

...core as density increased (at least initially) but demanded a complete alteration of the existing landscape.  About the Author LeeAnn Lands recieved her PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology's...

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project

...Civil War, and its aftermath. The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project's comprehensive coverage, rich metadata, and searchable transcripts make the database a highly useful contribution to these existing tools....