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

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...Land We Live in, the Land We Left: Virginia’s People,” an exhibition at the Library of Virginia in downtown Richmond, curated by Lisa Goff and coordinated by Barbara Batson, draws...

The Shenandoah Valley

...The Shenandoah Valley encompasses the part of the Great Valley, or the Great Valley of Virginia, that is the drainage for the Shenandoah River. As a geographic entity, however, the...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...fear of racial vandalism at the site, making all the more clear the need for remembrance. However, no vandalism has taken place at the site of the historical marker, reports...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

Georgetown, 1874. Map by Faehtz & Pratt. Courtesy of Library of Congress. During the night of June 19, 2023, the first federally recognized Juneteenth holiday, an unknown vandal or vandals...