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

Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

...several features in the painting: gourds, the building, the woman’s clothes and her mixed race lineage About Peter H. Wood is an emeritus professor of American history at Duke University....

North Carolina: A State of Shock

...enacted this year reads like a wish list ripped from the fulminations of Rush Limbaugh, Ralph Reed's right-wing Faith and Freedom Coalition and the editorial pages of the Wall Street...

Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood

...but must it be Annie?5Eve Tushnet, "The Boy is the Father of Whatever: Richard Linklater's Boyhood," The American Conservative, July 18, 2014, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-boy-is-the-father-of-whatever-richard-linklaters-boyhood. Mason Jr. certainly isn't Hamlet, but the...

I-26, Corridor of Change

...from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Tennessee Tri-Cities area (Bristol-Kingsport-Johnson City). Starting in 1994, I began photographing, interviewing, and collecting objects to document the cutting of a nine-mile stretch of...