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

US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces

...Sean. "The Morning with Many Tongues." February 27, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/morning-many-tongues. Jones, Rodney. "An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim." January 22, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/absence-i-know-i-wont-reclaim. Phillips, Patrick. "Watching the Surface for a...

The Bulletin—December 20, 2012

...Haley announced that she will appoint Congressman Tim Scott (R-Charleston) to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by Republican Senator Jim DeMint. When he is sworn into office in...

St. Catherines Island Flyover

Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton, Sr., seated in their living room in Mobile. Above them in a single frame hang portraits of each from 1903, spliced together to commemorate the...

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

...fireworks. Our guide said that sometimes, the land still let go of fragments from the war—a gold button, a bullet, a tooth migrating to the surface. We searched around. On...

Early Roller Coaster Patents

...within the circle and accessible by stairs. In both cases, the passengers are seated facing sideways. The former patent relies on precisely determined distances and heights such that the car...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...only dead stones flat and smooth. This is not Jordan, only simple water muddied from a season of rain. This is not Jordan, but I have prayed at this shore...

Mapping Souths

...closely sealed off from the North geographically, nor a moral unity. It is not a country at all, but a battle slogan.2Karl Marx, "The Civil War in the United States,"...