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

Besieged Terrain

...oaks, scarlet oaks, hickories, and black gums on the drier ridges, and American beech, hemlocks, rosebay rhododendron, and black willow in the wetter areas and hollows. Its creeks have many...

Love and Death at Second-Line

...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...make people aware of past injustices.1Karen Halttunen, “Groundwork: American Studies in Place—Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 4, 2005,” American Quarterly, 58.1 (March 2006), 1-15. This is very...

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...

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

Essay In early 1943, John Yoshida escaped from the American concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas.1This essay is adapted from John Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...and Derek H. Alderman, Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory (Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College, 2008); Renee Christine Romano and Leigh Raiford, The Civil Rights...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...rural Alabama, these images follow the daily activities of an extended African American family in their segregated, southern town. When they appeared as part of the Life photo essay "The...

Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces

...long-form interpretive and critical pieces result from extended scholarly engagement with a topic, frequently breaking new ground in critical regional studies, African American, Native, and American Studies, women's and gender...