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

New Shades o'Death Creek

...so upset Aunt Lavinia. She opened the car door and stepped out, scarcely able to breathe. Once there had been mountain after mountain, shedding fog in the morning, soaking up...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...people who had struggled financially their whole lives. In other words, the gamut of immigrant experience.”  Photographer unknown, Two Italian-Americans, Elannore T. Carrieri and Anna Guarina, at unveiling of Columbus Statue,...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

...by a committiee including none other than Thomas Jefferson. This revision of the contemporary Virginia law carried a penalty of castration for men and "cutting thro' the cartilage of her...

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

...built upon hyper-speculative lending and building. (top left) Red ruts and black rubber; (top middle) Tenuous; (top right) Playing Indian; (bottom left) Developer's flag; (bottom right) Carpenter's level and sun...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean in its early formulation. Highly recommended for ecocritical scholars. Finally, because drama does not get its readerly due and most of...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...term to associate Sacred Harp singing with the authenticity, folkloricity, and exoticism that the term "southern" carries for audiences in the United States. Other singers explicitly associated the practices of...