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

Genres of Southern Literature

...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...

The Place of Appalachia

...maintain family and community ties. County Economic Status in Appalachia, Fiscal Year 2013, Appalachian Regional Commission. Population Change in Appalachia, 2000–2010, Appalachian Regional Commission. Unemployment Rates in Appalachia, 2010 (County...

Religion and the US South

...William Faulkner in explaining why religion appeared so often in his novels and stories (Glynn and Blotner, 1959, 41). It was not a matter of whether Faulkner or other southerners...

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...