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

The Colonialist's Gaze

...suggested that in the on-going process of "Americanization" it might be better if the unfit inhabitants simply "died off."   "Plan of Isabela," illustrated town map from Armstrong's notebooks. Image...

Making History

All I know of the Spanish-American War is what Virginia boys, kept safe at college, etched into the mortar with their pencils so that leaning against a brick wall a...

Dirty Little Story

...days of work. You would need gloves, a mask and a backhoe. This public beach seems emblematic of all that is wrong with American culture. On the one hand, you...

Mapping Souths

...and Slavery in the American Slaves States (1861; New York: Modern Library, 1984), 3. Decoding Trescot's South as (mere) battle slogan, Marx silently generates a battle slogan of his own:...

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

Introduction The True Image explores the history and output of Scotch-Irish stonecutters in the early backcountry of Pennsylvania and the Carolinas. For none of them do we have any personal...