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

The Liminal Site

...with a Chinese or Japanese provenance—daphnes, gardenias, camellias, lacecap hydrangeas. (While there were several evergreen azaleas already on the property, however, I was not tempted to add to their number.)...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...

Horton newspaper

...outrage in the South' by Republican papers of Kansas. But as it occurred in Kansas they deem it wise to keep mum. If the young, dissolute hellions were bloodthirsty enough...

Wichita newspaper

Wichita Daily Eagle. "Burned at the Stake by a Mob." January 17, 1901. "It has got around to Kansas, around to the state the dream of whose people has always...

A Mess of Poke

...not quite Euell Gibbons and Stalking the Wild Asparagus, either. Poke sallet greens were once commercially canned and marketed. The Allen Canning Company of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, paid gatherers by...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...As Brent Campney notes in his essay on Reconstruction-era violence in Kansas, if non-southerners "inflicted less violence" in the aggregate than southerners, "they did not do so because their racism...

Single Centers of Creation?

Essay Detail from Nancy Lowe, Source, Species Icons exhibit, Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. Introduction In this sampling from ORIGIN, a collaborative exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of...