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

Gold Records in Deep Space

...to be its isolation from contemporary reality."8Filene, Benjamin. "O Brother, What Next? Making Sense of the Folk Fad," Southern Cultures 10 (Summer 2004), 56-57. Wenders portrays Blind Willie Johnson as...

Educational Resources

Developed for teachers, students, and researchers, educational resources gather Southern Spaces publications into several fields of knowledge. Featuring well-crafted articles, videos, reviews, interviews, and digital projects, these continuously updated collections...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket: Video and Essay Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket. A short video by Ben Harmon and Catalina McCormick, 2009. Individuals' experiences in the criminal...

The Civil Rights Archive

Video Part 2: Dr. Patton explains the layout of Trenholm State's Civil Rights Archive and addresses obstacles she encountered...

Finding Media

Finding media is a big issue for us here at Southern Spaces. We’re constantly searching for new photographers to highlight in our Featured Images section, and we’re often tasked with...

At Cornwall Furnace

...confluence of the Coosa and Chatooga, mud ebbs from a bed of scoria, slag I can find in channels miles south. Algae homes in its pocks. The friend who has...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...when he couldn't bring some Southron home. I see him there remembering his poems, his back to the door, singing out to the garden of the world, the tropical spring...

In the Magic City

...from the strings like something's coiled up there,     a static even Elvin never shakes. Or maybe what the needle thinks,     some Old South air trapped in ladled steel,...