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

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...engines that drove much of what made the southern economy unique in the decades between revolution and secession. What concerns Pargas in Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South...

Mississippi Delta

...white settlement after Indian treaties between 1820 and 1832. One traveler in the 1820s, Paul Wilhelm, described a rich ecology, noting migratory birds, kingfishers, herons, ducks, eagles, and the soon-to-disappear...

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

...digitized materials makes American Memory the most diverse and comprehensive digital archive of American history and culture freely available and easily accessible to the public.4See http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/ for more information about...

Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love

...and therefore, "there is a clear relationship between tolerance and openness" about one's sexuality.7Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men Are Gay?" Stephens-Davidowitz buys into a narrative with a history. Mississippi has...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...developed, financed, designed, and constructed by African Americans for African American residents.2See Betsy Riley, "Collier Heights awarded Local Historic district status," Atlanta Magazine, May 16, 2013, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/civilrights/collier-heights-awarded-local-historic-district-status/; U.S. Department of the...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...in the Appalachian movement. The field began in the tension and turmoil of activism vs. scholarship, but currently, if not a complete fusion, there seems to be mutual respect between...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...only as Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956, shows two nicely dressed women, hair neatly tucked into white hats, casually chatting through an open window, while the woman inside discreetly nurses...