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

Seneca Quarry

...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...

The Change

...to transplant those seedlings to each hill in the field, the space for that particular plant and we watched as they would grow. Before all of this new age, new...

Zircon

Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...

Hutchinson newspaper

Hutchinson Semi-Weekly Gazette, January 21, 1905, "Cold-Blooded Murder."   Cold-Blooded Murder "The victim was a colored man, Exekiel Martin, about forty-five years old, and the murderer was a white man,...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...blend of natural and human history. The western half of the island is composed primarily of Pleistocene sediments deposited along a shoreline 40–50,000 years ago. Much of its eastern half...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

We can all remember when the Covid reality fully hit, that moment when we were forced to confront the stark news and the hard arrival of abrupt change. I remember...

Atchison newspaper

Atchison Daily Globe . "The Leavenworth Lynching." January 17, 1901. "Nothing will be done about the Leavenworth lynching. The legislature will adopt resolutions condemning it; the newspapers will refer to...