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

Julius Hartman

...the natural beauty of this restful spot. "During the summer a beautiful lake has been constructed, covering about four acres, and it will be added to during the fall, and...

I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees

...they started in a slight breeze off the lake, the many and patient sails, I could see in those motions a little of the world that owns me — and...

Chattahoochee (excerpt)

...wallow, I can almost see the bottom of the lake, the black bass diving, dividing the darkness in the feathery tissue of its gills, as curl after curl rises from...

Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina

© Brian Gauvin, Pratt Drive and Robert E. Lee Avenue at the breach in the 17th Street Canal Levee, Lakeview, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 27, 2005. Seven years ago, from...

African American Suburban Development in Atlanta

African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...

Letter: Blues

Those Great Lake Winds Blow all around: I'm a light-coat man In a heavy-coat town. — Waring Cuney Yellow freesia arc like twining arms; I'm buying shower curtains, smoke alarms,...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...a congregation in which his secrets and his song would be unwelcome, though he slake some secret thirsts, his orotund voice tune our ears to the river's whisper, a baby...