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

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...did not know where McPherson's left flank terminated, he had sought to align his four divisions abreast, facing northward. Just prior to battle, Hardee's four divisions formed a crescent from...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...they lived with a coterie of other young people. They threw raucous queer parties and housed folks who didn't have anywhere else to go. A few blocks down the street...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...currents of the Atlantic as seen from the hull of a slave ship—might be difficult to discern. In which direction does the water flow towards freedom? About the Author Ariel Lawrence...

The Shenandoah Valley

...Public Library Rare Books Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/af1f02d7-5641-ce42-e040-e00a18064e03.  The creation of the national park was part of a long pattern of boosterism and economic development in the Valley, but it did herald...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...of the unself-conscious variety. Marcus Christian, who directed the Negro Division of the New Orleans Writers' Project based at Dillard University, long remembered the handshake on the evening Saxon offered...