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

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...explicit commentary than most of the photographs selected for his photo essay, indicating his intention to elicit empathy over outrage. However powerful Parks's empathetic portrayals seem today, Berger cites recent...

Besieged Terrain

...today. Site of a strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. The technique used to get the coal, called mountain top...

Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies

Today Southern Spaces published Edward A. Hatfield's essay "A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate," which surveys the challenges of transportation planning in the Atlanta metro region...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...patterns today called "Rob Peter to Pay Paul." These patterns became popular during the late-nineteenth century and were published under many names during the twentieth. The common element is the...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...last shadows, as the people thin, I see a dark woman humming. It could be 1945, or it could be today. She’s headed home, humming some songs she thinks I...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...to be drawn from the 2008 election has less to do with southern politics or history than with political strategy. It is the same for Republicans today as it was...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...the island, but most moved to the mainland after the Sea Island Hurricane of 1893. Many of their descendants today comprise the Gullah-Geechee community in Pin Point, Georgia. Through the...