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

Horton newspaper

Horton Commercial, reprinted in Topeka Plaindealer. "Lynching Dead Negroes." January 31, 1902. "Had this lynching of a dead Negro occurred in Louisiana or Texas, it would be termed 'another Democratic...

Topeka newspapers

...Times Two Texas cowpunchers tried to hang a negro named John E. Lewis on Santa Fe train No. 17 last night, and were only prevented when the negro drew a...

And the Prize Goes to...

Elizabeth Engelhardt. Photograph by Marsha Miller. Courtesy of the University of Texas. At the end of the Spring 2015 semester, seventeen students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

The Bulletin—October 18, 2012

...Mississippi's governor has joined other southern Republican governors from Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas in declining to participate in the program, in the wake of a Supreme Court...

Country Music Scholar

Video Part 2: Malone discusses enrolling at the University of Texas, the Austin folk revival, and his dissertation, Country Music USA Part 3: Malone discusses variation in country music style, contrasting the...

The Bulletin—July 10, 2012

...healthcare law varies across place.   The McAllen Public Library in McAllen, Texas recently won a 2012 Library Interior Design Award from the International Interior Design Association for their 123,000 square-foot...

The Bulletin—June 26, 2012

...the Justice Department to reject similar proposals in Texas and South Carolina earlier this year. The US Supreme Court handed down a ruling yesterday in the case of Fletcher v....