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

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...on a hill." So they found him on a porch and took him north to become briefly, cogently famous and leave songs — "Louis Collins," "Candy Man," "Make Me a...

Substantiation

...be wrong. One juror says he knows it, seen rights workers take their shovels out along the roads at night. That Sheriff Strider's right. That it's the northern poison got...

Georgia Postcard

...Highway Church of God: "You come in here and pray." Roadkill, and blackbirds that pick at it, Chain gangs, and fat scarlet clover in rippling flocks — a North Georgia...

Quilting Conversation

Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...

And the Prize Goes to...

Elizabeth Engelhardt. Photograph by Marsha Miller. Courtesy of the University of Texas. At the end of the Spring 2015 semester, seventeen students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...to be beaten to death in a bar fight in North Carolina. Texas executed the nation's first post-moratorium prisoner in 1982, Charles Brooks, the first person to be executed by...