Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...I began to investigate the possibility some seven years ago, I was surprised to learn that it was perfectly legal to have a coop in Decatur. So I approached my...
Little Creek, North Carolina
Grave marker from the Woody family cemetery that was moved for I-26, Little Creek, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Mr. Thomas standing next to his parent’s grave in...
The Flood
...looking back, turning into a pillar of water. I drag a stick through my reflection: there lies another, whose name is written in water. Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
From Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968): I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. Images of all...
DOIs and Altmetrics
...By adopting digital object identifiers (DOIs) and partnering with Altmetric, Southern Spaces continues to model best practices in digital publishing. All Southern Spaces pieces now include DOIs that provide a...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...generation of academics have named it the southern imaginary—runs deep in American culture. We know that it defines, ensnares, and empowers whites and blacks. We know it has tremendous flexibility...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...quality and quantity of its multimedia interactive exhibits. Some succeed in conveying the vast sweep of the conflict in ways impossible otherwise. "A Landscape Turned Red" charts the major battles...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
...beauty and technical skill of his poems is a profound intervention into our ongoing conversations about race and social justice. His body of work represents a bold and necessary challenge...
Birdhouses
...a nuthatch. But as one said when I asked why he creates birdhouses and places them in his yard, "I guess I just like the idea of birds." Pines in...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...Mississippi River as an icon for the twentieth-century South. We are looking for scholarly articles, archival documents, and interviews (but no poetry) on the symbolic importance of the river for...