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

Birth Right

...Administration (HRSA), Special Data Request, April 2009. Midwifery advocates insist that legalizing midwifery would be a cost-effective response to the lack of birth plan options for women in rural Alabama....

El Dorado newspaper

El Dorado Daily Walnut Valley Times. Untitled. April 22, 1893. "Let us not howl at the south for murdering 'niggers.' Up at Salina a mob hung a darkey for slashing...

Fort Scott newspapers

...are open questions." Fort Scott Herald. "The Right of Self Protection." April 5, 1879. "Fort Scott has no apology to make for the dreadful deed which was forced on the...

The Chimney

...against the drying chimney, leaving his long thumbprint swirling.   Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...

Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins

Presentation Part 2: Engelhardt’s discussion of state market bulletins’ history, content, readership, circulation, and archival importance Part 3: Engelhardt overviews the correspondence among bulletin readers and Lawrence Part 4: Engelhardt asks questions such...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...and much more. Despite its short 3:45-minute length, this video's content, combined with its brief narrated descriptions, can inspire an hour or more of classroom discussion of natural and human...