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

Religion and the US South

...Pioneers in the great religious reformation of the nineteenth century, ca. 1885. Engraving by John Chester Buttre featuring portraits of Thomas Campbell, B.W. Stone, Walter Scott, and A. Campbell. Library...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...

The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness

...Vice, April 13, 2017, https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/aemwqg/s-town-and-the-loneliness-of-being-gay-in-the-rural-south; Michael A. Lindenberger, "S-Town Humanizes the Haunting Isolation of Gays in Rural America," Dallas Morning News, May 3, 2017, https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/05/03/john-bs-loneliness-tells-us-homosexual-life-rural-america. ) Olin Long tells of...

The Liminal Site

...a loss, to adapt old southern studies' endlessly replicable melancholia to yet another Lost Cause! Conversely, how easy to lay, from the safe distance of western Canada, the problem at...

Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story

...Cajun country was settled by French speakers from Canada, and they absorbed and Cajunized their local Indian neighbors and the settlers who came later on from various parts of Europe...