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

Failed Memory Exercise

...a block of stores Like a test for names, beginning with the P.O., By which, in late autumn, the loaded wagons came, The colts wheeling behind the great sober mares,...

The Chesapeake Bay

...century. They often saw the region as a "wilderness, as God first ordained it." They were struck by the forests especially and the density of foliage, and like most Englishmen...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...band director stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia—explicitly framed his singing school as teaching the style of Sacred Harp singing practiced in West Georgia in the early 1970s. Other singing teachers...

Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920

...using the collection's browse function, I discovered a number of striking images of my neighborhood, including an unattributed photograph from the early twentieth century depicting a store called Red J....

Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers

...European styles of realism, Biggers's later work began to incorporate more stylized and symbolic elements drawn from African traditions, creating a hybrid style of realistic and abstract forms. Biggers also...

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

...cases (26 deaths) of the West Nile virus disease in humans in 43 states so far this year. This number represents the highest total in late August since the CDC...

A City Divided

...Most of the larger homes on Jackson Street, Houston Street, and Boulevard dated to the 1880s, and their building footprints suggest the era's prevalent Queen Anne–style architecture, a style popular...