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

Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?

...and New Mexico, 1800–1850 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 37. Wahlstrom's research makes clear that the US-Mexico War did not diminish economic and settlement patterns. Instead, ex-Confederate migration mapped...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...step of posting a detailed policy statement, titled 'Negroes,' on the serving of blacks in his Felix Mexican Restaurants," writes Behnken. "Most eating establishments simply hung a 'whites only' sign....

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

...(New York: Scribner, 1971; Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2003), 78. Differential access was also maintained. The only Blacks permitted to pass through the station's white waiting rooms were...

Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World

...known map of the Mississippi River, by Father Jacques Marquette, but credited to Melchisédec Thévenot. The engraver was likely Jean Baptiste Liébaux. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at...