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

Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)

...the project director and editor-in-chief of Sounding Spirit, a research lab and publishing initiative promoting collaborative engagement with historical American songbooks. Karlsberg is an internationally recognized singer, teacher, composer, and songbook...

Brushes with War

...International Society of War Artists. In "The Joe Bonham Project" (named for the soldier in Dalton Trumbo's 1938 novel Johnny Got His Gun), more than a dozen artists focused their...

The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman

...handling unions competed for work along the busy river. In 1935, during the labor-friendly Roosevelt administration, the International Longshoremen Association built on this segregated, sometimes contentious, but often cooperative past,...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...their immediate grief.10D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality (London: Tavistock Publications, 1971); Melanie Klein, "Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States," The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 21 (1940): 125–153; Ellen Schattschneider, "Buy...

Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters

...pattern [of segregation] was exclusion."13Don Sanders and Susan Sanders, The American Drive-In Movie Theatre (Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1997), 55; "Lock Haven Drive-in," Drive-In Theaters of the Mid-Atlantic, http://www.driveins.org/va-roanoke-lochhaven.htm. The...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...accidents, and spills—an inevitable component of business operations—exceed these legal releases. Efforts to improve overall safety include the international Responsible Care program, started by the chemical industry in the mid-1980s....