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

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out   When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...

Piedmont Blues

...to raise her nine children and to work at the Skyland Textile Mill. In 1973, with her children grown, she quit her job and began to performing in public again,...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...skyrocketed, then dipped. Red-Blue divides widened. Vaccines produced in record time received mixed receptions. COVID-19’s impact surged, subsided, and swelled again—repeatedly. The pandemic dragged on and left its mark virtually everywhere and on...

Public Health in the US and Global South

...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...