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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

...intersects, three-tenths of a mile to the east, a paved section called the Vulcan Trail, which itself runs, closed to motor vehicles, exactly a mile to the base of the...

Mississippi Delta

...an extensive flood control system. The New Deal introduced the most extensive federal government presence in the region since Reconstruction. Planters used New Deal appropriations to their advantage, accepting payments...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...of Coronavirus on the Way We Live (New York: Little, Brown Spark 2020);  Scott Gottlieb, Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic (New...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...the newly opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC. Evidently a seed sack made of unbleached cotton fabric dating to the mid-nineteenth century,...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...engaged. We could locate oysters and restore nineteenth-century reef names because food historians such as Robb Walsh found maps and newspaper stories from before the beds were scientifically coded and...