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

The Bulletin—October 2, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...enraging abolitionists during the same year the Republican Party was founded. Nannie was seven when open mass violent conflict erupted in Kansas. In the month of her death, the US...

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]

...120] Whether or not the handkerchiefs in Rosa's quilt were products of this local factory, similar bandannas would have been widely available in local stores. Construction: Rosa Benson Snoddy framed...

Horton newspaper

...outrage in the South' by Republican papers of Kansas. But as it occurred in Kansas they deem it wise to keep mum. If the young, dissolute hellions were bloodthirsty enough...

Wichita newspaper

Wichita Daily Eagle. "Burned at the Stake by a Mob." January 17, 1901. "It has got around to Kansas, around to the state the dream of whose people has always...

A Mess of Poke

...not quite Euell Gibbons and Stalking the Wild Asparagus, either. Poke sallet greens were once commercially canned and marketed. The Allen Canning Company of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, paid gatherers by...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...As Brent Campney notes in his essay on Reconstruction-era violence in Kansas, if non-southerners "inflicted less violence" in the aggregate than southerners, "they did not do so because their racism...

Single Centers of Creation?

Essay Detail from Nancy Lowe, Source, Species Icons exhibit, Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. Introduction In this sampling from ORIGIN, a collaborative exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of...