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

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...bound book; Stella Mae Richard, "Two Hidden Cemeteries in the Georgetown Section of Washington D.C.," Negro History Bulletin, Washington 32, no. 8 (Nov 1969): 29. In 1849, Oak Hill Cemetery, reserved for...

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To subscribe to our monthly email announcements, click here. Email Address: SEditor@Emory.edu Fax Number: 404 727 0827 Mailing Address: Southern Spaces Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta,...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...South Intersections of music with place, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class Native American musics, Latina/o musics, musics of immigrant groups Local music scenes: punk, hardcore, rock, folk, hip-hop, emerging...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...Mary made this quilt before her marriage in 1889 and suggesting Mary's pride in her identity and family connections. History: Mary's "Save All" is an example of a family of...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

  "Paul's Crazy Quilt-center pieced by Rosa Benson Snoddy during Civil War. Auntie made the rest of it. Quilted by her, Cousin Mag & Auntie." History: One of Nannie's (Nancy...

Piedmont Blues

...1932, and he collaborated with a number of high profile blues artists, including Ma Rainey, Gus Cannon, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Blake disappeared after his last Paramount session in 1932....

Failed Memory Exercise

...Those things that wore away and primed a vacancy. But he sat there while my distant cousin shined his shoes, And then he simply walked across Main to the depot,...

The Chesapeake Bay

Introduction The Chesapeake Bay's environmental history is complex and well-documented. Over four-hundred years of textual records document the Bay's environmental history, and over ten-thousand years of archaeological, geological, and biological...