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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

...century a few southern states had established boards of health. By 1913, every southern state had established a state health agency, identified the insect carriers of malaria and yellow fever, and...

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...followed in the form of letters written to the columnist in 2001–2002 is worth considering. Some letters warn the columnist of anthrax attacks, if he does not stop abusing his...

Seneca Quarry

...Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. The most remarkable part of the 1823 payroll is the annotation by Frank and Martin (see image, lines 31 and 32). Whoever signed for...

The Bulletin—March 20, 2013

...Steubenville as both an impoverished town in the Rust Belt of Ohio and as an industrial Appalachian city, tacitly connecting the crime to longstanding regional stereotypes. The case has garnered...

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

...the top twenty-two states with the highest adult vaccination rates voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, and some of the least vaccinated states were the most pro-Trump....

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...and keep their gains.5On corporate subsidies, Niraj Chokshi, "The United States of Subsidies," Washington Post, March 18, 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/17/the-united-states-of-subsidies-the-biggest-corporate-winners-in-each-state/?utm_term​=.314361798972. Top, View of Arthurdale project, Reedsville, West Virginia, 1935. Photograph by...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

Tennessee Governer, Ned McWhirter, at the dedication of the Tennessee portion of I-26, Just west of Sams Gap, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Highway traffic exiting I-26 in...