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

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:...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...Conjugal Union: The Body, the Hours and the Black American (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Martha Southgate: What Came Before Cover, left, from Martha Southgate's Third Girl from the Left...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. After over a decade of research and surveying, North Carolina and South Carolina have reached an agreement on the official 335-mile border...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...coalfields of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia, and east Tennessee. By 1994, the US Department of Energy anticipated a production increase of as much as 24 million tons...