Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...they ferried across the Alabama River in the rural Black Belt. The quilters, known for their spectacular, handmade textile art exhibited in museums from New York to Houston to Atlanta,...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...and portable box cameras, such as the Brownie, around the turn of the century transformed "one of the most envied accompaniments of high birth"—family portraits—into an almost common possession.6"Old Photographs,"...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...as its various members move around the state of Texas while always staying within each other's orbits. One antecedent for this project is François Truffaut's series of films following the...
Mississippi Delta
...as formative as any factor in shaping the life and culture of the Delta. Native Americans lived on the land that became known as the Delta from around 1000 B.C....
Submission Guidelines
...a title, an abstract of less than one hundred words, citations in footnotes, recommended resources (divided into "Text," "Web," "Audio/Video," and "Related Southern Spaces Publications"), and page numbers. Please use...
Congregation
...the workmen have erected a scaffolding around the tank, a radius of poles from which to hang the ropes that pull them up. From a distance, the scaffolding is a...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Julius Hartman
Clipping from an article about Julius Hartman, "A Born Genius," published in the Atlanta Constitution on August 31, 1890: "A Born Genius" "And now [Hartman] is entering the grandest work...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...critical analysis, reduces barriers to the discovery of scholarship, and enhances education and research initiatives.1"Benefits of Open Access Journals," Public Library of Science, accessed November 17, 2017, https://www.plos.org/open-access/. A spirit...