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

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...the other way to west, to wilderness, to where the future waits to open out its shining promise, destiny. Backwater meant new water then, where greatness waited, tilted toward the...

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...

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...

Whiskey and Geography

...Newfound Sovereignty (New York: Scribner, 2006), 66. With this kind of consumption pattern among the English, they had little room to ridicule people of the western mountains as habitual drunks....

Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities

...having populations of 100,000 or more. There were fourteen: Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery in Alabama; Little Rock in Arkansas; Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Shreveport in Louisiana; Jackson...