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

I-26, Corridor of Change

...1/2 hours. Streaming audio and transcription of interview. Source: Documenting the American South, Southern Oral History Program, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-253/menu.html Interview with...

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...

Writing Appalachia

...seek is scattered to the four quarters of the internet.1Websites for locating Appalachian writing include Documenting the American South (docsouth.unc.edu) and Making of America (quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/). Additionally, many specialized anthologies of...

The Crowd He Becomes

...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...