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

Shadows along the Waccamaw

Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...

The Bulletin—October 18, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

Blog Post Camille Goldmon, editorial associate: I'm rereading Patricia Sullivan's Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. It's a monograph on liberal New Dealers and their...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...opening prayer Sandra Green Thomas rose to address the congregation. Thomas, a descendant of the Harris and Ware families and president of the GU272 Descendants Association, waited a long moment...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...Light minister, Samuel Davies of Virginia. Sent as a missionary to the Cherokees in October 1758, Richardson was out of his depth and had no success whatever in the assignment....

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...of Illinois Press, 2015), 123. Mountaintop coal mine, Charleston, West Virginia, October 16, 2008. Photograph by Flickr user ddimick. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Cropped from original. There is...

The Liminal Site

...Nashville Railroad, which carried iron ore from the mines that still angle down into the narrow seam of ore-bearing sandstone that runs along the ridge. Today, it's a footpath that...