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

A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition

...with the idea that blacks supported the Confederacy.6Washington Post, October 20, 2010 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/19/AR2010101907974.html) and October 24, 2010 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102203429.html). Various Sons of Confederate Veterans sites have suggested that tens of thousands...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...a frequent guest blogger on The Best American Poetry, and one of his poems, "The Truth About the Present," was recently featured on The Academy of American Poets' Poets.org site....

New Shades o'Death Creek

...site above McRoberts, Kentucky, 2005. The Old Road had once been the only way to Charleston, before the four-lane highway — still new to Lydde — went in. They wound...

Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces

...Lesbian, Transgender, and Bisexual southern experiences Gender identity and performance Canons and Questions Histories of sexuality in critical and popular thought Identity politics in site-specific contexts Pedagogy and the academy's...

Anniversary

Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...

St. Catherines Island Flyover

...pre-Civil War plantation sites. Map detailing the geography of St. Catherines Island and St. Catherines Sound. Map courtesy of Steve Bransford, Anthony Martin, and Michael Page. Screenshot courtesy of Southern...

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...a Creative Commons license must a) give attribution to authors, b) not be used commercially, c) not be used derivatively, and d) should specify Southern Spaces as the site of original publication. If...