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

The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces

...for a number of months at Arlington House, explained that visitors sometimes took her aside to ask in hushed tones, "Were there really slaves here?" She also observed that some...

The Cobb County Braves

..."We . . . recognize that what is insurmountable is we can't control traffic, which is the No. 1 reason why our fans don't come to more games. . ....

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...for them neither. We'd have to play basically what we had to play for highbrow white people." "Now, the regular black people you could play the blues for. That's what...

The Bulletin—November 1, 2012

...Association of Research Libraries which features attorneys and advocates involved in the recent Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case summarizing the ruling and its implications for libraries. In Florida, recently enacted...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...that emphasize spatial interpretation and utilize digital media. Southern Spaces welcomes submissions that: critically and creatively examine real and imagined spaces and places make connections and comparisons between southern regions...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...and other scholars have been so busy whittling away at that old standard story that today only a stump remains. Even the National History Standards, written and approved during a...

The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers

...that Southern Spaces also continues to accept submissions on a rolling basis. For details, see our submission guidelines. From The Southern Quarterly: Celebrating fifty years of publication, The Southern Quarterly:...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...long, somewhat controversial tradition in southern literature, one that Richard Gray describes as "a familiar path in Southern writing, in search of the raw and marginal, disrupted lives presented in...

Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley

...Enough Blues.” Mitchell: Yeah. Jim Bunkley: I [laughter] that’s right. He played that. Mitchell: Can you play that one now? Jim Bunkley: I, I know I can’t get that together...