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

An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts

...the private sphere among women, who recycled dresses, shared patterns, and paid other women to piece and to quilt. Quilts and household heirlooms served to commemorate and reinforce the private,...

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...within each of them, of very different kinds of public and private narratives of struggle, allows us a view of the workings of prejudice in unlikely forms and places. To...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...reveal the investment required for soldiers entering federal service. Privates and non-commissioned officers received "muskets and accouterments" but each commissioned officer had to bring a sword and, if possible, a...

The Carolina Piedmont

...and business base. The creation of the "public/private" Research Triangle Park in 1959 typified the continuing effectiveness of the decades-old collaboration of corporate, academic, and government elites, this time put...