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

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...a number of beautiful suburban homes have been erected...." ("New Houses Erected" Atlanta Constitution (March 8, 1894), p. 8 ) Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895 Published: 15 January 2008...

The Black Belt

...fertile Black Belt (or Prairies) soil is produced by the weathering of an exposed limestone base known as the Selma Chalk, the remnant of an ancient ocean floor. Selma Chalk...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...His footnotes cite one letter each from the sympathetic towns, none from the disinterested one. Or again, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published two very pointed letters to the editor after the...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...dozen university officials, and a cluster of Jesuit priests assembled inside Healy Hall for the liturgy and slowly processed into an ornate, wood-paneled auditorium on the third floor. After the...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...the world shared by stonemason and patron. The gravestones, in fact, offer additional ways to enter that world, for they were its sculpture gallery. The inscriptions upon them also compose...