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

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...

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...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...nineteenth centuries the Lowcountry proved “the deadliest disease region on the North American mainland,” especially in the summer and fall. “Carolina is in the spring a paradise,” commented a German...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...and well-preserved Native American (Guale) shellring on the northwestern corner of the island gives evidence that humans have experienced Sapelo for at least 4,500 years. The arrival of the Spanish...

Editorial Style Guide

...does not capitalize "civil rights movement." Identifiers related to race, cultural identity, or ethnicity: Southern Spaces capitalizes racial and ethnic identifiers (e.g. Latinx, Asian American, Native American, African American); racial...

August, 1959: Morning Service

Beside the open window on the cemetery side, I drowsed as Preacher Lusk gripped his Bible like a bat snagged from the pentecostal gloom. In that room where heat clabbered...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...