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

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

...is currently an associate professor of English and holds the Paul & Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair at University of Nebraska at Kearney. Her published books include Blood Run (2006), Off-Season City Pipe (2005), Rock, Ghost,...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...came out into the spaces of the project, into the spaces of our city, into a new relationship with queer history. A past with a future. Every October we celebrate...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...South Intersections of music with place, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class Native American musics, Latina/o musics, musics of immigrant groups Local music scenes: punk, hardcore, rock, folk, hip-hop, emerging...

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...

"Little Switzerland"

"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...explore what happens after someone is released from prison. We reached out to the Foundry, a private, faith-based re-entry facility for men in Bessemer, a city adjoining Birmingham. Over the...

The Border South

...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...