Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...mineral rights and vast landholdings, opening of the "billion dollar coalfields," growth of company towns and the exploitative trap of scrip (non-legal tender in which miners received wages), company stores,...
Whiskey and Geography
...the struggling American government by taxing whiskey, the plan met with open revolt. Farmers who had fought against the British, specifically against taxation without representation, wanted nothing to do with...
August, 1959: Morning Service
Beside the open window on the cemetery side, I drowsed as Preacher Lusk gripped his Bible like a bat snagged from the pentecostal gloom. In that room where heat clabbered...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...
Regions of Alabama
Video Part 2: Dr. Flynt offers an historical-geographical perspective on Alabama's economy from the antebellum era through 20th century Part 3: Dr. Flynt discusses the importance of a sense...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. As a follow up to our Open Access Week blog post, we are sharing this one-hour webcast from the blog of the...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
Call for Blog Posts Southern Spaces is an open access, multimedia, peer-reviewed journal publishing innovative scholarship on regions, places, and cultures of the US South as well as their global...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...courtesy of the author. The original street-facing window of 1108 was a grand, cathedral-style frame—a colossal opening into a living room where the organizers met. Shot at and shattered countless...
Call for Blog Posts, Articles, and Media: COVID in Viral Times
...longer articles and media productions, that address the public health and political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Queries and abstracts are also welcome. Southern Spaces is an open access, multimedia journal...