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

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...here are at least twice that of the rest of the country. The people are mainly a rural, white population whose families have lived in Appalachia for generations, dating back...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...ruin. Rather, it is a commemoration. It is a solemn remembrance of the Americans—men, women and children, black and white, from the north and the south—who lived, fought and died...

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...the Confederacy wanted to become but never had a chance to be—an independent republic of slaveholders who grew cotton and lived outside the United States. This proved interesting for my...

When the Border Crossed Me

...freedom to stay in place and their need to leave home to keep their farm alive. I was a beginning farmer hiring seasoned agriculturalists from another country to help make...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...(Near Jackson, Mississippi), depicts an intimate interior space where a piece of clothing hangs on a wall over a bed. Clothes and the intimate spaces inside homes where people live...

Brushes with War

...change with the decades. Our capacities for taking lives, and for saving them, seem to increase over time. But the combat artist seated with his sketchpad still looks very much...