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

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...Civil War Centennial Center, Downtown Richmond, 1962. Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center. No other place embodied that particular spirit of 1961 quite as well as Richmond, the former...

Public Health in the US and Global South

...German settlement patterns and raises questions about longstanding assumptions regarding the presence of slavery as the determining factor in German settlement. Selected from a large number of submissions, these essays...

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...Pakistan)." Not quite on par with the extremist Hindu right wing's demand in India: "Babar ki santan / Jaao Pakistan ya Kabristan" ("Descendants of [the Mughal Emperor] Babar [i.e., Muslims...

Seneca Quarry

1823 Seneca Quarry workmen payroll. 1823 payroll. National Archives & Records Administration, Records Group 42: Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, 1790–1992....

North Carolina: A State of Shock

...restaurants, bars, parks, playgrounds, athletic events, parades, funerals, and into the parking lots of public schools and universities.2Amend Various Firearm Laws, North Carolina Session Law 2013-369 (passed July 29, 2013),...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...read in their respective localities. First, the poem takes pains to suggest that local conditions made possible Paul's passing. As Alexander's deft use of conjunction and line breaks make clear,...