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

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

Blog post Mother Jones died ninety years ago, but she was back in Alabama this July. It was not her first visit to the state. She came to Birmingham and...

The Civil Rights Archive

Video Part 2: Dr. Patton explains the layout of Trenholm State's Civil Rights Archive and addresses obstacles she encountered...

1108 Dynamite Hill

Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265&amp Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...

At Cornwall Furnace

...confluence of the Coosa and Chatooga, mud ebbs from a bed of scoria, slag I can find in channels miles south. Algae homes in its pocks. The friend who has...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...when he couldn't bring some Southron home. I see him there remembering his poems, his back to the door, singing out to the garden of the world, the tropical spring...

In the Magic City

...from the strings like something's coiled up there,     a static even Elvin never shakes. Or maybe what the needle thinks,     some Old South air trapped in ladled steel,...

Geography

...years: he’s smaller, his voice lost in the distance between us.   3. On the Gulf and Ship Island Line my father and I walk the rails south toward town....