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

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...

The Shenandoah Valley

...Illustration. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-286d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. Sheridan's raid went into local history as "the burning." Far...

Remnants of Flannery

...largely set in-and-around New Orleans; Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and the 2012 film of the same name, which reimagines slaves as food for vampires and the...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...

2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading

...from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker,...