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

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...of the plantation South. His romantic histories, beginning with Fabulous New Orleans, and followed quickly by Father Mississippi and Old Louisiana, all authored during a literary sojourn in New York...

Theories of Time and Space

Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...only the most privileged get a high-quality residential education? Global mountain regions conferences, University of Kentucky, 2012, and Transylvania University, Romania, 2015. Screenshot by Southern Spaces. Appalachian Studies should collaborate...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II

...to appreciate smelly old books, discolored newspapers, and indecipherable manuscripts. I blame my parents—after all, they planted the seed that is now blossoming into full-blown archive fever. #DareToBe promotional materials,...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...Studying Plant Disease, ca. 1930–1943, Tuskegee, Alabama. George Washington Carver, an agricultural scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, sought to ease sharecroppers' dependence on cotton by researching and promoting alternative crops....