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

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food (Fall 2011). Engelhardt is also co-editing (with John T. Edge and Ted Ownby) a forthcoming volume about southern food methodologies. Originally...

The Black Belt

...Geologically, the region lies within the Gulf South's Coastal Plain in a crescent some twenty to twenty-five miles wide that stretches from eastern, south-central Alabama into northwestern Mississippi. The unusually...

Brushes with War

...in Kansas City, while the Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina provided John Ross Key's wide-angle view called Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Siege of Charleston Harbor, 1863 (1865). (Key,...

The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers

...that Southern Spaces also continues to accept submissions on a rolling basis. For details, see our submission guidelines. From The Southern Quarterly: Celebrating fifty years of publication, The Southern Quarterly:...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...their lives in the southern civil rights movement. Such heroic feats, however, can exaggerate the difference between the religious ethos of northern and southern white Protestants, establishing the popular impression...

And the Prize Goes to...

...digital writing projects. All eligible contest articles were published between January 2014 and Spring 2015 and engaged southern studies themes, expansively defined. Our survey included articles from Southern Spaces, Southern...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...also facing off against Halpert's bulky, furniture-sized machine to offer her own definitive repertoire of southern vernacular culture for the archive. A copy of Halpert's "Tentative Record Check List" from...