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

The Border South

...if not its outright commitment to the Union, essential for both military and political reasons. Throughout the war Lincoln worked to peel off Border South Unionists and encourage them to...

Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease

...Gaffney, "As Black Lung Strikes Younger Coal Miners, Kentucky Restricts Medical Benefits," NRDC, September 24, 2018, accessed September 29, 2018, https://www.nrdc.org/stories/black-lung-strikes-younger-coal-miners-kentucky-restricts-medical-benefits. Apart from such individual physicians' political and medical predispositions, however,...