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

Atchison newspaper

...there the matter will end for all time. 'It will not look right to eastern people if we do not condemn the lynching,' said one legislator yesterday,'but personally I approve...

Lawrence newspaper

Lawrence Daily Journal, reprinted in Leavenworth Times. Untitled. January 24, 1901. "Kansas is again the recipient of columns of advice from other states. Other states should understand that this is...

Topeka newspapers

...Times Two Texas cowpunchers tried to hang a negro named John E. Lewis on Santa Fe train No. 17 last night, and were only prevented when the negro drew a...

Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance

...etc]; retaining the former amusements, which were the joys of those who hungered and thirsted after pleasure, while new features have been added, which promise in time to become as...

Substantiation

...the cabin, at the bridge, their alibis are gone. The stranger emerges from the river then disappears. The little girl's mother rises from her grave, home just in time for...

The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron

The poet tries to make the heron a god, but the heron does not care. The heron wades along the shore, a dark body absorbing light, patience stopping time. The...

The Dirt Eaters

Southern Tradition of Eating Dirt Shows Signs of Waning —headline, The New York Times, 2/14/84 tra dition wanes I read from North ern South: D.C. Never ate dirt but I...