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

Roadside Architecture

...Mississippi and the states bordering it had, for me, been little more than places to drive through on the way to somewhere else. When the mid-South unexpectedly became my home,...

Dirty Little Story

...blue. We march down to the public place where even those without lakeside homes and boats can go to get their toes wet. We struggle to the bottom of the...

California Creek, North Carolina

...undercut the highway over time, California Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Sign placed on the job site by the contractor, Gilbert Southern, encouraging higher quotas in an...

New Shades o'Death Creek

...refused to sell. They weren't going to cover us up like some of the other places, he said, because we were near the River. So he was hanging on. Besides,...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...the Confederacy has placed a plaque here, at the fort's entrance— each Confederate soldier's name raised hard in bronze; no names carved for the Native Guards— 2nd regiment, Union men,...

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...multimedia journal publishing innovative work on regions, places, and cultures of the US South and their global connections. We welcome submissions that creatively examine real and imagined spaces and places...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...Making pictures throughout Covid has been energized by an acceptance of a shrinking physical daily terrain, of being isolated in smaller places. My reply was to busy myself by affirming...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...Digital Scholarship. His documentary feature film The Well-Placed Weed is available on the PBS website and app. Michael Page is lecturer in Geospatial Sciences and Technology at Emory University. Leotie...