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

Substantiation

...one, hat pulled down, right behind. Three days later, the bluesman says, a plague of starlings gathered into little boys those who fished and found the dead man's foot. The...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...Giroux, 2006); J. Michael Martinez, Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007); Stephen Budiansky, The Bloody...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...these efforts failed, Ross led his people west and began the work of rebuilding the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory. Ross and Jackson's stories are well-known, and Jacksonland offers little...

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology

...Beasts' other mythic register—its quest for a way to represent our species' relation to global warming. Styrofoam is made from oil, and images of acetylene torches, gas stoves, and gas...

Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance

...and filled with all the devices of popular amusements, which will delight grown-ups and children, Ponce de Leon, the playground of Atlanta, will be thrown open to pleasure-loving patrons, Monday...

Single Centers of Creation?

Essay Detail from Nancy Lowe, Source, Species Icons exhibit, Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. Introduction In this sampling from ORIGIN, a collaborative exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of...

Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects

...with Digital Historians." Southern Spaces, January 31, 2012. https://southernspaces.org/2012/conversation-digital-historians. Pollock, Daniel A. "The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance." Southern Spaces, May 30, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/battle-atlanta-history-and-remembrance. Please submit proposals (350–700 words)...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...Atlanta was Anniston, a "very explosive trouble spot," with violent Klan activity, noted the Riders' advance reports.2Arsenault, Freedom Riders, 97, quoting Tom Gaither's report in advance of the rides.  At...

Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces

...and we will continue to expand the range of subjects our educational materials cover. Upcoming resources will feature collections on music and sound cultures and the Atlanta Metro and Appalachian regions. To...