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

The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

...to the Digital Yoknapatawpha Project. The project is still in development so any overview I provide now has to be provisional. The project continues to expand, often in ways that...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...ways to go about studying the things that I am interested in: Whitman, Richmond, nationalism, and nineteenth-century American culture and history. It’s also a way to pay the bills, which...

Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs

...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...

Besieged Terrain

...of the streams, this method only cut some species of trees hemlocks, for example, are difficult to float—and primarily those close to larger waterways. In 1890 industrial loggers took advantage...