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

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...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...Americans use the centennial to establish “the justice and equality which were the dream of the founding fathers and . . . the inalienable rights of every American citizen.” Many...

Writing Appalachia

...the American Consciousness, 1870–1920 (1978). In navigating these turbulent waters, we also had to ask ourselves what story of the region we wanted to tell. In answering this question, we...