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

Regions of Alabama

...at Auburn University and a leading authority on Alabama history and Baptist history in Alabama, was educated at Samford University, formerly Howard College (B.A.,1961) and Florida State University (M.S., 1962;...

Birth Right

...the average charge for a home birth with a certified midwife was almost $1,000 compared to over $5,000 when a woman delivered using an obstetrician in the hospital.4Center for Health...

The Bulletin—July 10, 2012

...library which was built inside an old Wal-Mart Store. View a photographic tour of this repurposed facility. Atlanta University Center's Robert W. Woodruff Library Learning Commons also received an award...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. The UGAMI still serves as a thriving center for ecological research and hosts academic field trips in natural science education. In September, November, and December...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...22 Apr. 1911, 12; Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, 13 May 1911, 1. The NAACP wrote to both President Taft and Kentucky governor Augustus Wilson in protest. This national attention compelled Governor...

Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction

...deduction."3O'Brien, The Idea of the American South, 1920–1941 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979): xxi, xxii. Although not entirely unprecedented, O'Brien's wedge between the idea of the South and...

Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta

...a Region in My Mind," New Yorker, November 17, 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind. "[The people back home] didn't care about us no way," Scott said, speaking of whites' reception of black veterans....

Mississippi Delta

...Plantation, Scott, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8d7-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. Outside...