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

Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta

...a Region in My Mind," New Yorker, November 17, 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind. "[The people back home] didn't care about us no way," Scott said, speaking of whites' reception of black veterans....

The Chesapeake Bay

...watershed encompasses parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia). The Bay was formed only 10,000 years ago. Its Algonquian name, which means "Great Shellfish...

The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills

...of city and I had prepared myself for an urban jungle. However, while we live one mile from the Atlanta city limits, my new neighborhood hosts a variety of wildlife,...

Fort Scott newspapers

Fort Scott Daily Monitor. October 7, 1883 "Acquit Him" "From the statements of those present at the killing of McDaniel on the fair ground yesterday, the negro man, May, did...

Olathe newspaper

 Olathe Mirror. "A Dastardly Assault." December 31, 1896. "Mr. Ross is an old citizen of Johnson county, and as the MIRROR goes to press he is lying in a critical...