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

Mississippi: State of Confession

...https://www.nae.net/church-and-faith-partners/what-is-an-evangelical. To be sure, this is a longstanding assertion. However, recent narratives of religion in the civil rights movement by scholars such as Jonathan S. Bass and David Chappell have...

Remnants of Flannery

...calls her "flanvas," which she made herself.6Ibid. Travis Ekmark's art for the zine. Portrait by Travis Ekmark. Courtesy of Travis Ekmark and Brooke Hatfield. During a July 29 event to promote...

Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.

Amos Kennedy Print, Kennedy and Sons Collection, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. On March 15, 2016, acclaimed printmaker Amos Kennedy, Jr. participated in a public conversation about...

The Border South

...shape these states increasingly were understood and understood themselves as on the border. They contained various sub regions and economies, but all allowed and, indeed, promoted slavery. Virginia, for example,...

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...

Topeka newspapers

Topeka State Journal, December 5, 1906, "Texans had 'Fun.'"   TEXANS HAD 'FUN' Tried to Lynch Negro on Santa Fe Train No. 17 Cowboys Put Rope Around His Neck Three...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...bodies in the trees, twirling legless. I sang until morning. I sang, and the white ones were here sniffing an empty breast. They are here but I cannot die. My...