Boarded-up homes in abandoned mining town, Twin Branch, West Virginia, 1938
This photograph from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black and White Negatives collection, taken in September 1938 by Marion Post Wolcott, carried the following caption: "Boarded-up...
Louisiana National Guardmen observe as water from the industrial canal overtops the levees, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2008
...the Upper Ninth Ward during Hurricane Gustav, September 1, 2008. In this photograph, two Guardsmen located on the Claiborne Avenue Bridge observe as water from the industrial canal overtops the...
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
Thelma McWilliams Glass died on July 24, 2012 at age ninety-six. She was the last surviving member of the Women’s Political Council (WPC), a group of African American women in Montgomery, Alabama, who...
New Website for Music Memory
In April 2012, Southern Spaces published an interview with Lance Ledbetter, founder of Dust-to-Digital Records, in which he discussed the operations of his Atlanta-based record label. During the interview, Ledbetter mentioned...
Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937
This series of photographs by Arthur Rothstein depicts men and women in canning and packing plants in Winter Haven and Fort Pierce, Florida. While photographs of agricultural work appear throughout the Library...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...of 1,823 visits on February 4, 2013.1During the same period, Southern Spaces attracted roughly 14,000 pageviews per month, 167,587 in total. Since 2008 our readership has increased every year. Our...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...derivative works, such as those "consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship."1"17 US Code, Chapter 1, Section 101–Definitions,"...
High water on access road, Grafton, West Virginia, 1987
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...
Glocal Lounge
From the beginning of Southern Spaces in 2004, we've understood this journal as participating in critical regional studies. Southern Spaces publishes work that represents and analyzes many souths and southern...