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

Residues of Border Control

...found and photographed are often private and reveal the identity of border crossers. Some have actual identifying potential, as they contain the border crossers’ DNA. The portrayal of everyday objects...

Single Centers of Creation?

...a new line in the story. If we could trace all our origins all the way back, we would find that we salamanders, we hominids, we birds, we slime molds...

The Border South

...contributed to the crisis' resolution. Naval bases in Maryland and Virginia represented massive federal power in the region, not to mention federal dollars and jobs. Businessmen were dubious of school...

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...had lived there? Those Xs raised questions without answers, and although the symbol was strong, I filed it all away as a memory of Floyd. Almost seven years later the...

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...traditional sources and deep archival work. But digital methods give me more tools to do what we’re all trying to accomplish, which is to answer questions. It allows me to...

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

...Photo: Rick Rhodes. Susan Harbage Page's Background Material: Columns refer to the often unacknowledged but critical social function of privileged women. Framing the entrance to the exhibition, the pair of...