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

States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act

...February 6, 1837, accessed, August 22, 2013, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/slavery-a-positive-good/. Calhoun developed a theory of state sovereignty called "nullification" as the South faced mounting opposition to slavery every time Congress considered acquiring new...

CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

...a public health series covering the pandemic: https://southernspaces.org/2022/covid-19-lessons-ignorance/. Far too much had to be cobbled together on the fly in early 2020 largely because of prior organizational neglect. And far...

Genres of Southern Literature

Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...

The Morning with Many Tongues

Readings Sean Hill reads the poem "Just as Sure." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "Nigger Street 1937." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "The State House Aflame 1833." Poem text....

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

..."My Chaffeur," recorded and popularized by the artist Memphis Minnie in 1941. https://vimeo.com/396689526/cb33ae32d2 Precious Bryant performs "My Chauffeur." Recorded by Steve Bransford in Waverly Hall, Georgia, 2003. Courtesy of Steve...