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

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Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...

History: The Parlor

...during these visits. In southern rural communities, women's friendships were largely influenced by kinship networks. One's closest neighbors were likely to include relatives and in-laws of various degrees. Mary and...

El Dorado newspaper

El Dorado Daily Walnut Valley Times. Untitled. April 22, 1893. "Let us not howl at the south for murdering 'niggers.' Up at Salina a mob hung a darkey for slashing...

Topeka newspapers

...colored Knights of Pythias of the state, and it was his Knights of Pythias badge that aroused the southern hostility of the Texans. They didn't like to see a "nigger"...

Finding Media

Finding media is a big issue for us here at Southern Spaces. We’re constantly searching for new photographers to highlight in our Featured Images section, and we’re often tasked with...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...to be its isolation from contemporary reality."8Filene, Benjamin. "O Brother, What Next? Making Sense of the Folk Fad," Southern Cultures 10 (Summer 2004), 56-57. Wenders portrays Blind Willie Johnson as...

Educational Resources

Developed for teachers, students, and researchers, educational resources gather Southern Spaces publications into several fields of knowledge. Featuring well-crafted articles, videos, reviews, interviews, and digital projects, these continuously updated collections...