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

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...upon a material culture legacy ranging from Captain John Smith’s travels from England to Jamestown to the most recent influx of Mixtec migrants of southern Mexico to address a complicated...

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

...of these slaves, so often omitted from representation. More controversially, topsy-turvy figures join the inverted torsos of planters and slaves, to suggest the necessity of the slave to the planter....

Palomares Bajo

...edge of the Iron Curtain and back—collided with its refuelling plane, high above the Andalucían coastline, killing seven. As the aircraft disintegrated, four hydrogen bombs fell from the sky, with...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...Studying Plant Disease, ca. 1930–1943, Tuskegee, Alabama. George Washington Carver, an agricultural scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, sought to ease sharecroppers' dependence on cotton by researching and promoting alternative crops....

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...its wealthiest. Rice, indigo, and then cotton yielded huge profits to a tiny minority of intermarried merchant and planter families, while “most of the population experienced pestilence without prosperity.” The...