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

Hutchinson newspaper

Hutchinson Semi-Weekly Gazette, January 21, 1905, "Cold-Blooded Murder."   Cold-Blooded Murder "The victim was a colored man, Exekiel Martin, about forty-five years old, and the murderer was a white man,...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...that “contributed to ‘breaking the bonds of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities’” (11, quoting Turner, 1920). The backdrop to The Sacred Harp’s emergence is not...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...capital of the Confederacy. Virginia established the most active commission for the centennial and invested $1.75 million in the effort, much of it for a new building in Richmond. The...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...The Most Dangerous Woman in America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), and most recently, Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)....

Place, Time, and Memory

...rural landscape, the effects of time's passage upon the material world, the hubris of monumentality, and the fatal attractions of evil. A graduate of the University of Alabama, Christenberry lived...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...to end segregation—before the fiftieth anniversary of the bus burning occurs in 2011. A racially violent past is best addressed not by erasing its traces on the landscape, but by...