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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...

Southern Spaces: A Partial History

...broadly conceived program. I talked with interdisciplinary faculty and, whenever possible, hired bright project personnel who were themselves scholars. I was interested in how media innovations affect the way we...

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

...Elsewhere, men and women have been painted in blackface, to reference minstrel shows that so disparaged African American culture. Women are also implicated. Elegantly dressed and coiffed, they may hold...

Religion and the US South

...anything else. The mountains of east Tennessee were an important hearth for white Pentecostalism, giving birth to the Church of God, while the Deep South of Mississippi and nearby Memphis...

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...Cemetery for ceremonies and speeches. Fort Walker and Rifle Pit Confederate Colonel Lemuel P. Grant designed over ten and half miles of earthwork fortifications and connecting trenches that encircled Atlanta...