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

Steeplechase postcards

Coney Island's Steeplechase, the longest-running park on New York's Coney Island, was the namesake for parks in Connecticut and New Jersey. Postcard from Coney Island, Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, NY,...

Little Ivy, North Carolina

Little Ivy Church, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Blueprints for construction of new Little Ivy Church, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Cemetery...

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

Single Centers of Creation?

...this biogeographical idea; perhaps it is not as simple and straightforward as we thought. Species originate from one place, they disperse, migrate, branch into new species, some die off ....

Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

...University. A former Rhodes scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of several books on early American slavery, including Black Majority, published by Knopf in 1974, and Strange New...

Antietam

...that zigzag fence. We tried to picture 23,000 of anything. It wasn't that pretty. The dirt smelled like cats. Nobody knew who the statues were. Where was Stonewall Jackson? We...

Another Failed Poem About the Greeks

...and I made him hold my purse. On the way home he said We should do this again sometime though we both knew it would never happen since he was...