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

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...title.1The unique 1802 Compact between Georgia and the federal government settled Georgia’s claim to its western land beyond the Chattahoochee River in return for a pledge to extinguish Indian title...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...racing along the highway crept into my left ear. Untitled (James River), from the series Stony the Road, 2023, Gelatin Silver Print by Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Virginia Museum...

CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

...Center (EOC), Atlanta, Georgia, 2020. Photograph by and courtesy of Jim Gathany. Image is in the public domain. "Organizational learning," according to a leading researcher in the field and her...

"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics

...'Tater. Georgia Gourmets Now Reveling in the Chief Delight of the Year," https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1888-10-28/ed-1/seq-5/. Shipments by enterprising individuals such as Throckmorton fulfilled requests by southern congressmen. Georgia Democratic congressmen John Stewart...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...Charbonnier, Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas (Cambridge: Polity, 2021). It could indeed be pointed out that the rationalism defended by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, whose...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...Early, and Decatur Counties in Georgia to end up in Houston County in Alabama and Seminole County in Georgia, both of which border the Florida state line.2Fred Fussell, A Chattahoochee...