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

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...schools, and assert dominance.4In making this argument Campney critiques Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004), 229 and Robert G....

Whiskey and Geography

...taxes?”10Sherwood Anderson, Kit Brandon: A Portrait (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936), 118. From Spirits of Just Men:  Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World....

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...1700s. What would we be without James Audubon's nineteenth-century visual and literary records of where he went, what he experienced, and what he saw. Or what about Frederick Law Olmsted's...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...migrant heartbreaks as in the story of an enslaved woman named Nancy who in 1815 was freed by her master only to learn that under a 1806 law she had...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...were one. Adherence to evangelical Christianity and law formed what Dupont calls a "holy symbiosis" that white evangelical clergy worked and sacrificed to preserve (16). If, as Martin Luther King...

The Bulletin—July 10, 2012

...Law and Policy, which shows all of the legal filings, decisions, and news in every state relating to the act. The map demonstrates how arguments over the constitutionality of the...

The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills

...Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth...

Birth Right

...policies. At the heart of this issue is the question of choice. Current laws deny many healthy women a choice in their birth plans. In Alabama, it is legal for...