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

Good-Bye to All That?

...rights. From my perspective, neither of these Republican incumbents extensively campaigned. Lee McMinn (University of Texas graduate, retired Marine lieutenant colonel, Vietnam veteran/helicopter pilot with two graduate degrees and years...

Religion and the US South

...the growing marginalization of Anglicans, which was made complete with the overthrow of English authority during the American Revolution. By the 1790s, religious freedom and denominational competition for members represented...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...have been leading an initiative to build a larger memorial at the Freedom Riders site. But official reluctance to honor the Freedom Riders has often blocked action. In denying Georgia...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...free women of color formed a benevolent organization, the Female Union Band Society (FUBS). A decade later and for $250, they engaged Joseph T. Mason—schoolteacher and free man of color—to...

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

...funded, dual system so that private schools and homeschooling remain free of almost all regulations, academic standards, accountability, and oversight. These sorts of rules and regulations are always imposed by...