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

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...But these same capitalists also learned to dissemble, to themselves and others, about health conditions in South Carolina. Better than any predecessor, McCandless lays out this litany of subtle self-deception....

North Carolina: A State of Shock

...2013, http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/12/4232398/gov-mccrory-signs-voter-id-bill.html. "There is no moral issue. It is wrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country," Lyndon Johnson said to members of...

The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]

...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...

"Aint that Something?"

...win many friends at a high school where most of the students have family working for the coal company and Friends of Coal stickers decorate the principal's office. When she...

Mississippi Delta

...into the Delta through the end of the century in hopes of gaining greater economic opportunity there than elsewhere. Company stores and offices and clinic of Delta Pine Company, Cotton...

Public Health in the US and Global South

...over the past two decades have meant that many of the health risks that affected the US South in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries plague the Global South in the...