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

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...

Naming Each Place

...learning to love his hometown, gay Black identity, the visibility of southern poets, and autobiography in poetry. Part 2: Trethewey and Brown discuss the place of region in writing and the...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...Pleistocene (Silver Bluff) and Holocene shorelines on Ossabaw split near its southern portion, with the Pleistocene trending north–south and the Holocene trending northeast–southwest. The modern shoreline, which formed only in...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

...of the Historical Maps of Alabama Collection, University of Alabama Department of Geography. Via Wikimedia Commons. This 1818 map shows the states of North Carolina and South Carolina, with new...