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

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...2008. His well-written and suggestive new book, Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, is as engrossing as it is grim. He argues convincingly that during the eighteenth and...

Besieged Terrain

...New York. Farther west is the Appalachian Plateau, technically not a mountain region at all, but a high tableland of sedimentary rock eroded over hundreds of millions years into knobs...

The Bulletin—June 26, 2012

  The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those...

The Bulletin—February 11, 2013

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

A Mess of Poke

...recent turn in the "locavore" movement toward wild food foraging, which seems to have particularly taken root in southern cities. See, for instance, a lengthy article in the New York...

"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh

...knew not to use a damp or damaged mask, whereas 7% more people knew not to wear the mask loosely. 8% more people reported knowing that the Covid-19 vaccine improves...

The Change

...to transplant those seedlings to each hill in the field, the space for that particular plant and we watched as they would grow. Before all of this new age, new...

Sapelo Island Flyover

Video and Essay View the transcript of the video, along with a glossary of terms, here. A barrier island on the Georgia coast, Sapelo has an unusually long and varied...