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

A Mess of Poke

...to resemble a traditional palava dish of okra leaves that I had eaten in Liberia a few years ago, which had been delicious, so how bad could this be? Allison...

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Photographic print. Hood's leadership at Chickamauga won him a promotion to lieutenant general on February 11, 1864, and...

A City Divided

...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998).  Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...

Trouble the Land: The City Too Busy to Hate

...(1:08) Narrator: When Grady proclaimed a New South, he coined a phrase and cast an image that Atlanta would promote for decades to come.   By the early 1960s, growing Black...