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

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...2008. His well-written and suggestive new book, Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, is as engrossing as it is grim. He argues convincingly that during the eighteenth and...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...capital of the Confederacy. Virginia established the most active commission for the centennial and invested $1.75 million in the effort, much of it for a new building in Richmond. The...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...Missionaries, 1789–1839 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984); William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986); Thurman Wilkins, Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...Quarterly Review (Spring 1975), 222–239; Cleanth Brooks's "Southern Literature: The Wellsprings of Its Vitality," Georgia Review 16 (1962), 238–253; Flannery O'Connor's Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (New York: Farrar, Straus...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...I set out to see the exhibit in New York I knew it would be ugly. I did not know it would also be chillingly, lyrically beautiful. And this beauty,...

Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City

...not Gone?” Northwestern Institute for Policy Research, accessed October 23, 2017. http://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/about/news/2014/IPR-research-Great-Recession-unemployment-foreclosures-safety-net-fertility-public-opinion.html.  Foreclosures and underwater mortgages decimated real estate markets from Los Angeles to Orlando. Housing starts evaporated. Underfunded and...