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

A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition

...Textbooks" (http://cwmemory.com/2010/10/20/black-confederates-in-virginia-textbooks/). See also Ta-Nehisi Coates, "Understanding Virginia's Textbook Lie," The Atlantic, October 20, 2010 (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/10/understanding-virginias-history-textbook-lie/64859/) Detail of Siah Carter on the USS Monitor, James River, Virginia, 1862. Courtesy of...

Whiskey and Geography

...Mountain Books, 1974), 51. Soon nearly every community had stills and nearly all the farm families had some way of making or procuring whiskey. Eventually distillation spread to other areas...

History: The Parlor

...unspecified bric-a-brac. In contrast, the furniture in the sitting room included, among other items, a walnut writing table, two bookcases with glass doors, one lot of about a hundred books...

Naming Each Place

...the poem "Runaway." Poem text. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In this interview, conducted on September 5, 2009, during the Decatur (Georgia) Book Festival, Jericho Brown talks with Natasha Trethewey about...

The Place of Appalachia

...complexity and reach of organizing in Appalachia that, compared with the essays in Stephen L. Fisher's Fighting Back in Appalachia (published in 1993), so many chapters in this book document...

Work

...Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Poetry Book of the Year. Her first novel, Sufficient Grace, debuted in June 2006, shortly after her fiftieth birthday. Arnoult now lives in Brush Creek, Tennessee....

Remnants of Flannery

...Rare Books Library, "Flannery should be seen as whole as could be made possible."20Richard Fausset, "Emory Receives Archive of Work by O’Connor," The New York Times, October 7, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/books/university-acquires-flannery-oconnors-papers-and-effects.html?_r=0....