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

The Bulletin—November 1, 2012

...changes to the early voting schedule have altered the ways in which African American churches organize their early voting campaigns. According to Susan Saulny of The New York Times, these campaigns...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

...Homann, "Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali Britannorum industria excultae . . .," 1715. Via Wikimedia Commons. This next map illustrates the border between the colonies of North Carolina...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...years with the increasingly terse genre categories of writing: Chick Lit, Grunge Lit, or speaking of the American South, Grit Lit. I have to admit deep suspicion of easy taxonomy....

The US South in Global Contexts

Part 2: Dr. Marshall Eakin "Origins of the Old South" Part 3: Dr. Natalie Ring "Encountering the Problem South in the Late Nineteenth Century" Part 4: Dr. Tara McPherson "Wal-Mart...

Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)

...a brave reclamation and reckoning: a reclamation rooted in the absolute necessity to articulate, in the elegant language of poetry, a fuller version of our American story. Beyond the sheer...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...American politics wasn't that difficult. The key was to figure out who hates whom — "That is the secret." This formula, which reached its apotheosis in the Rovean politics of...

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...