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

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...

Early Roller Coaster Patents

...strongly suggesting that multiple rides based on his invention were built by others. A possible example may be a ride at Oakland Beach, Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania. An 1885 advertisement for...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...unacknowledged environmentalism. When the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) campaigned to desegregate the bus system and open jobs to black citizens in Alabama's capital city, five of the organization's eight primary...

St. Catherines Island Flyover

...extensive beaches, back-beach meadows, salt marshes, mud flats, fresh-water ponds, and more. Along with colleagues from Georgia Southern University, Page and Martin have worked together at St. Catherines since 2011,...