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

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...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

...hundred largest commuter zones in the study (worst here meaning the least likely for children born to low-income families to ever rise out of poverty), was used by The New...

The State House Aflame 1833

...different. It's twelve noon, and the assembly's just adjourned; the State House is aflame, and water won't reach the heights a slave can. Sam's a bondsman. The roof, the roof,...

Image Credits

...Street" sign, New York, August 29, 2013. Photograph by Flickr user Luciano Alves, Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Historic NYC Mattachine sign, New York, August 6, 2011. Photograph by Flickr user Marty...

History: The Parlor

...as the one built by Samuel Snoddy before his marriage, would also include some sort of sitting room intended for the family's private use. Material culture researchers frequently refer to...

Birdhouses

...bluebird house he'd nailed to the top of a post. The day was overcast, but enough light fell on the house that it caught my eye—such a quiet, cool, and...