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

Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920

...streets and shotgun houses—both hallmarks of milltown design—and with the Fulton Mill smokestacks looming mutely in the background, the neighborhood is saturated with remnants of its industrial past. But what...

Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers

...European styles of realism, Biggers's later work began to incorporate more stylized and symbolic elements drawn from African traditions, creating a hybrid style of realistic and abstract forms. Biggers also...

A City Divided

...Most of the larger homes on Jackson Street, Houston Street, and Boulevard dated to the 1880s, and their building footprints suggest the era's prevalent Queen Anne–style architecture, a style popular...

The Bulletin—July 24, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Farmers and ranchers across the South, Midwest, and West are struggling to bring their crops to harvest and feed their herds. Texas...

The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces

...his compatriots took up arms against the United States in order to preserve a society based on slave labor and white supremacy. Stephanie Batiste-Bentham, an African American interpreter who worked...

"Little Switzerland"

...Ponce de Leon park, and a private park by the name of Little Switzerland. It may be said that Little Switzerland has more attraction, furnishes more amusement and is more...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...prison in the state each year, the transition is less certain. Some will move into the only re-entry facility owned and operated by the state (which can only accommodate four...

Welcome!

...for future essays, videos, and presentations. Further, while most of the posts will be written by our staff, we are excited about publishing posts by scholars, teachers, artists, and other...