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

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...and other scholars have been so busy whittling away at that old standard story that today only a stump remains. Even the National History Standards, written and approved during a...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...states. Gerald Ford of Michigan is the outlier, but he was never elected, only appointed. The prominence of the Sunbelt in the last forty-four years reflected the historic geographical shift...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...and appliquéing them onto a plain background, the maker simply sewed the lengths of cloth together to make a whole-cloth top. The construction technique links this quilt to the whole-cloth...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...Picture Arts and Sciences to review the veracity of the film.  His approach reveals more than a director's preference for primary sources, more than the creation of authentic-seeming material to...

Residues of Border Control

...the information and pictures of the detainees and appear piled as trash in the street near the southern side of the Matamoros-Brownsville international bridge.5The practice of formally detaining border crossers...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

...canon to fully appreciate the complexity of the time and the struggle. The combination of Berger's image selection and his carefully researched narrative does just that. Postcard featuring iconic images and...

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

...off his hat. He double-checked the folded pieces of paper, then stacked them all next to the tracks. He crouched down as the train approached. The conductor didn't see him....