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

Congregation

...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...

Love and Death at Second-Line

...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...

Quilting Conversation

...Bend, Alabama, artists including Loretta Pettway and Emma Lee Pettway Campbell that are now part of the museum's collection. Outliers, History Refused to Die, and the High's newly reopened permanent...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...their way to Milledgeville frequently enough. But there were also a number of relatives, acquaintances, and professional associates who enjoyed the O'Connors' hospitality. She writes: "We had quite a gathering...

Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami

...HistoryMiami Museum. Courtesy of HistoryMiami Museum. Queer histories have historically been rooted and entangled with—in nuanced and checkered ways—anti-Black violence. I'm more inclined to think of it this way: Florida...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...had no way to make a good, archival quality print in color. On a trip to Chicago in the early 1970s, Eggleston discovered the process while reading a photography lab...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...the world shared by stonemason and patron. The gravestones, in fact, offer additional ways to enter that world, for they were its sculpture gallery. The inscriptions upon them also compose...