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

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

...promotional photographs. Their images depict the Ybor City Museum, a converted Cuban bakery on the grounds of Ybor City State Park. They speak to Ybor City's later role as a...

Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)

...the project director and editor-in-chief of Sounding Spirit, a research lab and publishing initiative promoting collaborative engagement with historical American songbooks. Karlsberg is an internationally recognized singer, teacher, composer, and songbook...

Editorial Style Guide

...Race, and Place in the South": "We place southern studies alongside studies of immigration to the South." Use a comma when identifying a speaker. A woman at the Immigrant Workers...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...hispanic mother and almost saved by a cop who brought from his pocket a shirt's worth of proof before the woman vanished with her English, before the psychics started rowing...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...back never had an older woman fend for me before defended plenty though guess it’s fair in all Union guys they just pull in and pull back like a boxer...

Off-Season

...he had me start out on a crew full of men. Men who’d never seen a woman work that way in town, first time I had a chance to operate...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...of modesty and humility prescribed by her upcountry Presbyterian faith. She wore a brown silk dress for her wedding, but as a young woman, she chose to wear cotton dresses...

Geography

...from each time: a man pining for Irene or Clementine, a woman dead on a slab at St. James. I’m too young to know this is foreshadowing.  To get away...

Congregation

...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...