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

The Colonialist's Gaze

...and hookworm eradication, see José Amador, "The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico," Southern Spaces, March 30, 2017, https://southernspaces.org/2017/pursuit-health-colonialism-and-hookworm-eradication-puerto-rico. This photograph from 1910 suggests the continuing...

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...

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

Introduction to the Battle of Atlanta Project Confederate and Union troops in close combat, Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Painting by the American Panorama Company. The fall of...

History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street

...Lirette, "Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters," Southern Spaces, April 17, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/blog/category-3-gentrification-new-orleanss-population-trends-and-hostility-internet-commenters. Campanella's characterization of black New Orleanians is as problematic...