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

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...in Society Hill, Alabama, ca. early 1980s. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum Records. Green Paschal Green Paschal, Talbotton, Georgia, 1969. Photograph by George Mitchell. © George Mitchell. Born...

Writing Appalachia

...of activism. bell hooks, Madison, Wisconsin. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Archives. Having explored the stories of Appalachia that we wanted this anthology to tell,...

Religion and the US South

...South was the movement of increasing numbers of settlers into backcountry areas of Virginia and the Carolinas after 1750. Attracted by inexpensive land, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Separate Baptists from the northern...

Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire

...hearth thesis from the 1960s.2Jack P. Greene, "Colonial South Carolina and the Caribbean Connection," in Jack P. Greene, Imperative Behaviors and Identities: Essays in Early American Cultural History (Charlottesville: University...

Southern Spaces: A Partial History

...the readers of traditional scholarly publications. Atlanta-based Mindpower Inc., where I'd worked prior to graduate school, produced the earliest design for Southern Spaces: sage green and orange, with a compass...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...

The Crowd He Becomes

...arrive, the state patrol arrives with bayonets instead of hoses, bayonets instead of dogs, while congregants arrive between firemen and plainclothes Klansmen and the children, the children arrive and depart,...