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

Bricking the Church

...Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he received the History Award...

The Civil Rights Archive

Video Part 2: Dr. Patton explains the layout of Trenholm State's Civil Rights Archive and addresses obstacles she encountered...

Fife Family Cemetery

Video Fife Family Cemetery, Hughes County, Oklahoma, 2008. Filmed by Craig Womack and Rosemary McCombs Maxey, edited by Southern Spaces staff. Affiliated essay....

Sapelo Island Flyover

...and well-preserved Native American (Guale) shellring on the northwestern corner of the island gives evidence that humans have experienced Sapelo for at least 4,500 years. The arrival of the Spanish...

Negotiating Black Identities

...on the construciton and reproduction of class-based identities among middle-class Blacks. Prof. Lacy's lecture was sponsored by the Emory American Studies Program and the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts....

Shadows along the Waccamaw

...His poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Greensboro Review, Backwards City Review, and Southeast Review. Interview with...

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

...of me. Making History All I know of the Spanish-American War is what Virginia boys, kept safe at college, etched into the mortar with their pencils so that leaning against...

Southern SpacesĀ Recommends

...husband. Holly Jackson's American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation has helped ground my teaching in Introduction to American Studies. I was honored to read Valérie Loichot's Water Graves:...