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

Early Roller Coaster Patents

...Up Hill," New York Times, June 27, 1884]. Wood's obituary [Toledo Blade, May 4, 1909] indicates that he licensed his patent for as much as $17,000 in a single year,...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...billow and shifts and shirts drift like porters through the depot's blank. Scatters spread over Rickwood, over Dynamite Hill and Tuxedo Junction's boarded jukes, descending like night herons into Elmwood...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...upon the violent expulsion of indigenous peoples. Left, John Ross, Philadelphia, ca. 1843. Lithograph by John T. Bowen, Thomas Loraine McKenney, and James Hall. Courtesy of the Popular Graphic Arts...

MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection

...a representation of black experience in America. Brotherman illustrator, Dawud Anyabwile, visited Emory University on June 5, 2015 as a guest lecturer for Clint Fluker's Visual Culture class, Black Comix (IDS 216),...

Bear Branch, North Carolina

...for the source of a spring on the highway right-of-way, Bear Branch, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...

Chattahoochee (excerpt)

...hung, turning all afternoon on the breeze. My rod bends towards breaking, then straightens as the fish darts free through the sunken junkyard that grows by the weight of one...