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

Deep Ellum Blues

...L. McDonald, Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925 (Dallas: The Dallas Historical Society, 1978), v.  Almost nothing, neither geography nor government, constrained the growth of the city, and it...

Whiskey and Geography

...County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1882), 171, cited in Dunaway, 197. Whiskey was good for helping work, sickness, pain, as well as for making festivities more joyous. Many a...

The Shenandoah Valley

...the Valley "will have little in it for man or beast." Sheridan's final report on the campaign stated that his troops destroyed or captured 3,772 horses, 10,918 cattle, 12,000 sheep,...

The Chesapeake Bay

...Bay," is similarly recent, perhaps only several thousand years old. But, 10,000 years ago the sea level was 325 lower than today and the Atlantic coastline stood 60 miles offshore...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...Cultural Production of Ignorance (and Its Study)," in Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, ed. Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), 1–33.  Further,...