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

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...and largest newspapers continued to fight against the Supreme Court and the federal government. Massive resistance shut down schools in several districts between 1956 and 1959 rather than allow black...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...and this I understand She wants a freeholder and I've got no land But I could maintain her on silver and gold And as many of the fine things as...

When the Border Crossed Me

...and grow crops in their absence. We had a love of farming in common. But it hit me hard when I realized that one huge chasm between us was my...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...the Appalachian Trail preparing to cross US 23 at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Contractor spreading mulch at the new Visitor Center on I-26 East, looking at Dale and...

Failed Memory Exercise

...And turned east, clattering toward the cotton gin, And returned empty, and faded beyond the track. Beyond those yards, where one day the sallow Dozers rolled and skinned back the...

Single Centers of Creation?

...Salamander Plethodon chattahoochee Chattahoochee Slimy Salamander Plethodon longicrus* Crevice Salamander [SC] Plethodon kentucki Cumberland Plateau Salamander Eurycea quadridigitata* Dwarf Salamander [SC] Pseudotriton montanus montanus Eastern Mud Salamander Plethodon cinereus Eastern...

US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces

...Reclaim." January 22, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/absence-i-know-i-wont-reclaim. Phillips, Patrick. "Watching the Surface for a Sign." April 14, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/watching-surface-sign. York, Jake Adam. "A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama." March 7, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/field-guide-northeast-alabama....