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

Horton newspaper

Horton Commercial, reprinted in Topeka Plaindealer. "Lynching Dead Negroes." January 31, 1902. "Had this lynching of a dead Negro occurred in Louisiana or Texas, it would be termed 'another Democratic...

Topeka newspapers

Topeka State Journal, December 5, 1906, "Texans had 'Fun.'"   TEXANS HAD 'FUN' Tried to Lynch Negro on Santa Fe Train No. 17 Cowboys Put Rope Around His Neck Three...

Eskridge newspaper

Eskridge Star. Untitled. July 13, 1899. "We are opposed to mob law: Our civilization is too far advanced for such business: We live too far north for that kind of...

Emporia newspapers

The Emporia Times and Emporia Republican. "Nigger Assaults White Woman." July 14, 1905.   NIGGER ASSAULTS WHITE WOMAN HOUSE OF MRS. LUSK ENTERED — NIGGER WAS CAPTURED AND IDENTIFIED BY...

Wichita newspaper

Wichita Daily Eagle. "Burned at the Stake by a Mob." January 17, 1901. "It has got around to Kansas, around to the state the dream of whose people has always...

Pratt newspaper

Pratt Republican. "A Bad State of Affairs." September 8, 1910. "Now the Republican always stands for law and against any form of mob law. It concedes the right of a...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...of the critical, interdisciplinary, and multimedia scholarship we seek: Busch, Andrew M. "Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas." Southern Spaces, August 19, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/crossing-over-sustainability-new-urbanism-and-gentrification-austin-texas. Conis, Elena....

Zircon

...of fifteen books of poetry, most recently Dark Energy (Penguin, 2015). He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek (1999), a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek,...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...known for its illusory 3D effect. Titled "Unloading a Cotton Steamboat, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A." (ca. 1890), the stereograph portrays several black men serving as stevedores on the New Orleans docks.3This stereograph is...