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

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...the term "Jacksonland." The United States is Andrew Jackson's country, a nation born in violent conquest. The early republic did not expand naturally into empty western lands. People like Jackson...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...and the Southern Book Critic Circle Award. He has taught at the University of South Carolina and is currently the Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University....

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...as the instigator, is from the Owensboro (Ky.) Daily Inquirer, 21 Apr. 1911, 1. Owensboro is a small city located near Livermore, in the western region of the state. A...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...in telling ways. He rightly challenges assumptions that the West was a racial utopia that differed markedly from the racist reality to the East, as "the western frontier did not...