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

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,...

Geography

...years: he’s smaller, his voice lost in the distance between us.   3. On the Gulf and Ship Island Line my father and I walk the rails south toward town....

Theories of Time and Space

You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south on Mississippi 49, one— by-one mile...