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

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out   When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...

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...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...Ansley, Fran and Anne Lewis. "Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee." Southern Spaces, May 19, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/going-south-coming-north-migration-and-union-organizing-morristown-tennessee. Auslander, Mark. "The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...As the black fiddler Howard Armstrong recalled, musicians performing at dances in east Tennessee around 1920 had to be able to perform an eclectic repertory. Because everyone seemed to want...

Single Centers of Creation?

...Dusky Salamander Gyrinophilus porphyriticus Spring Salamander Plethodon aureolus Tellico Salamander Gyrinophilus palleucus Tennessee Cave Salamander Eurycea guttolineata Three-lined Salamander Plethodon wehrlei Wehrle's Salamander [T] Plethodon welleri Weller's Salamander [SC] Plethodon...

Dirty Little Story

...We are lucky to get back to the dock. I chance to remember a Tennessee Valley Authority beach on this beautiful lake called Pickwick. You can get there by land....

Birth Right

...nearby states, such as Tennessee, where present laws enable midwives to attend out-of-hospital births. Many of these women are seeking alternative delivery options that enable them to have continuity in...