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

The Liminal Site

...Vulcan statue. In 1924, when America's leading landscape architecture firm, Olmsted Brothers, put together their proposal A System of Parks and Playgrounds for Birmingham, they recommended this area be part...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...how the unique geography of the area has shaped industrial infrastructures and how petrochemical production continues to alter the landscape. The first part of Petrochemical America consists of photographs taken...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...Tyger River area. Rosa was the oldest of the eleven children of Silas and Nancy. The quilt that Silas and Nancy Benson gave their daughter was a whole-cloth quilt of...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...spaces in the D.C. area, and yet was reelected to Congress for his conservative Republican values. Eventually, he was caught again and run out of office. We thought about Aaron...

Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire

Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...