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

The US South and the 2008 Election

...from Vernon, Alabama, sitting in his shop surrounded by wood-paneled walls decorated with a deer head and trophy fish. According to one of the article’s quoted experts, the South was...

The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills

...Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth...

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...is demonstrated to work with other newborns, it will be widely recommended for use around the world. Marco McMillian, an openly gay African American mayoral candidate in Clarksdale, Mississippi, was...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...plot conflict involving exaggerated, comic collisions of characters based on class and education, civilization vs. barbarity. His narrator is the southern aristocrat. When one of his folk characters swears, the...

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

...to collaborate on a major site-specific installation inspired by the Gibbes' 150 year-old collection. Dr. Laurel Fredrickson, an art history Scholar in Residence at Duke University, authored the wall text...

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

...Southern Spaces uses Wikipedia pages as hyperlinks in our articles. While we favor scholarly open-access materials or well-curated collections of primary documents for our links, we often end up choosing Wikipedia...

Editors

...2005) and Emerging Illness and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). She collaborated with photographer Michael Schwarz on the oral history documentary project, The Newtown Story: One Community’s...