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

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...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...like the gravestones of my kin, but the a cappella hymn sung by my great-aunt, this years before the Smithsonian taped her voice as if the song of some vanishing...

Good-Bye to All That?

...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...we have Trevor breaking down, telling his mother at her grave site, I'm gay and I'm not ashamed of it. I know you counseled otherwise, but I must live this...

North Carolina: A State of Shock

...there were symbolic victories. One proposal would have made Christianity the official religion of North Carolina.5Rowan County Defense of Religion Act of 2013, House Joint Resolution 2013-494 (in committee), http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=h+494....

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...assist them, built the mission and fort of Apalachicola on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River. This site, located in Russell County, Alabama, lies about fifteen miles south of...