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

Mississippi: State of Confession

...Movement in American Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006). Chroniclers of the black freedom struggle have long sought to dispel the collective memory that undergirds what local state officials...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...of the enslaved. Another screen drops to ground level, cutting back and forth between close ups of the lush green grass and sharp stalks of sugarcane leaves piercing from the dirt...

Bodies and Souls

...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...

Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance

...and filled with all the devices of popular amusements, which will delight grown-ups and children, Ponce de Leon, the playground of Atlanta, will be thrown open to pleasure-loving patrons, Monday...

Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects

...with Digital Historians." Southern Spaces, January 31, 2012. https://southernspaces.org/2012/conversation-digital-historians. Pollock, Daniel A. "The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance." Southern Spaces, May 30, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/battle-atlanta-history-and-remembrance. Please submit proposals (350–700 words)...

Failed Memory Exercise

...I bump awake over the Atlantic Or wait in the plant-hung lobby of a hotel In Atlanta or Montreal and answer then, though I do not know the nature of...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...