Southern Exposure is an award-winning print journal and magazine published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation and won several awards, including a National Magazine Award and two George Polk Awards, for its writing and investigative reporting on a broad range of political, economic, and cultural issues in the South.

Vol. 16 No. 2 - Summer 1988
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Magazine cover with abstract art in green and yellow reading On the Map: New Views of the Early South

On the Map: New Views of the Early South

  • Dateline: The South

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  • Southern News Roundup

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  • Hearts and Mines

    A handful of Southerners are forcing the country's biggest phosphate mine to clean up its act. By Robin Epstein.

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  • Breaking New Ground

    Archaeologists are unearthing new evidence of the critical role slaves played in shaping the early South.

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  • Lamhatty's Map

    A rare look at Indian maps offers a glimpse of how native Americans viewed the South 300 years ago. By Gregory A. Waselkov.

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  • Re-Counting the Early South

    The first population breakdown of the entire colonial South by race and region reveals a sweeping revolution that took place before the Revolution. By Peter H. Wood.

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  • Kitchen Table Crusader

    Cora Tucker is right at home raising hell in Southside Virginia. By Mike Hudson.

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  • The Lloyds

    Fiction from a work-in-progress, by the award-winning author of Storming Heaven. By Denise Giardina.

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  • Old Hands, Young Blood

    Student activists of the '60s meet campus organizers of the '80s. A special section on SNCC, the most dynamic force of the civil rights movement.

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  • Southern Scene

    Less hair, more children. The Great Speckled Bird flies into the '80s. By Julie A. Hairston.

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  • Southern Music

    New Orleans was once home to The Sound, but the music got away. Now there's only the Jazz Fest—and 305,000 loyal fans. By Richard Boyd.

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