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

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...Covid-19 Commercial is Exactly the Same," Microsoft Sam, April 15, 2020, YouTube video, 3:40, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM3J9jDoaTA.  As COVID-19 variants emerged and disease waves swelled, public health officials justified shifts in their...

Single Centers of Creation?

...Salamander Plethodon chattahoochee Chattahoochee Slimy Salamander Plethodon longicrus* Crevice Salamander [SC] Plethodon kentucki Cumberland Plateau Salamander Eurycea quadridigitata* Dwarf Salamander [SC] Pseudotriton montanus montanus Eastern Mud Salamander Plethodon cinereus Eastern...

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...

Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake

...sentimental, full of clenched drama and secrets and surprises but always subtle."5Quotes taken from Pancake's personal website, http://www.annpancake.blogspot.com. Pancake has received the Bakeless Literary Award for short story writing, a...

The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces

Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...

Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus

...district—would ultimately fade as public officials, business leaders, and area residents "generally supported the board's policies" and approved the schools' performance through the 1980s and into 1990s (22). However, as...