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

The Bulletin—January 29, 2013

...violated the Tenth Amendment and Article IV of the United States Constitution." The case involves the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed suit on behalf of the Alabama State Conference...

Bodies and Souls

Bodies and Souls: Video and Essay When the body is falling apart, it's hard to pay attention to what your soul is telling you. —Sister Manette Durand Map of Jonestown,...

The Black Belt

...United States. During the "flush times," Black Belt commerce on the Alabama, Black Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers transformed towns such as Montgomery, Selma, Demopolis, and Tuscaloosa and boosted the Gulf...

Early Roller Coaster Patents

...291,261; January 1, 1884) P.M. Stevens, Roller Coasting Device (U.S. Patent 298,710; May 18,1884) Early Roller Coaster Patents circa 1884 gif images United States Patent and Trademark Office    ...

The Bulletin—November 15, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...Star State, across the South, and indeed, across the entire United States, were vigorously undoing the gains achieved by blacks during the Civil War and Reconstruction, all the while imposing...