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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

...SC From 1894 to 1917, the Black family lived in this large house on North Converse Street. The house no longer stands. Photograph courtesy the Black family. Mid-nineteenth-century homes included...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...Samuel Snoddy before his marriage, would also include some sort of sitting room intended for the family's private use. Material culture researchers frequently refer to county probate records, which not...

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

...have historically prioritized local partnerships with religious leaders and institutions acknowledging this very important sphere of influence.  We must continue to undertake hard conversations about the tensions between individual freedoms...

Local Color

...are "colored" by regionally defined characters, settings, folkways, and dialects. The paradox, and thus the richness, of this often discounted form lies in the tension between local and national that...