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

Regions of Alabama

...at Auburn University and a leading authority on Alabama history and Baptist history in Alabama, was educated at Samford University, formerly Howard College (B.A.,1961) and Florida State University (M.S., 1962;...

Failed Memory Exercise

...Saturday, Sabrina Playing at the Cameo, the farmers scooping Sweetfeed and calf manna from the silvery bins Of H.R. Summerford and Sons, General Merchandise, But stop now, for I see...

Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

...published by Oxford University Press in 2003. Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War (Harvard University Press, 2010) is his third book on black images in the work of Winslow Homer....

Bricking the Church

Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...American political sociologist John Gaventa initiated a videotape conversation between rank and file coal miners in South Wales and Appalachia. Attending Oxford University with filmmaker Richard Greatrex, Gaventa initially documented...

New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography

...writing down, through a hyper-awareness of the place the researcher is temporarily occupying, the seemingly minute details of everyday life. This is important because, as Clifford Geertz—the first to practice...