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

Public Health in the US and Global South

...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...

The Bulletin—July 24, 2012

...ranchers sold nearly 36,000 head of cattle last week, triple the number from a few weeks ago. The Arkansas River Basin has been hit especially hard, which is evident in this map...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...across the Rio Grande River, Los Ebanos, Texas, March 3, 2014. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/resource/highsm.27608/. What if we...

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out   When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...