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

I-26, Corridor of Change

...rural counties across the United States, Madison experienced rapid change. In the 1960s, a significant number of newcomers entered Madison County from outside the Southern Appalachian region. The earliest of...

Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...

Editors

...Awakening of a Nation (New York: Knopf, 2007), which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in history. Klibanoff is also the creator and host of Buried Truths, a narrative history podcast...

The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills

...of city and I had prepared myself for an urban jungle. However, while we live one mile from the Atlanta city limits, my new neighborhood hosts a variety of wildlife,...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...One of the Sinners." In the study of religion, Charles Marsh, Paul Harvey, and a host of others have shown how Protestant institutions vitally aided and abetted white supremacy and...