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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

...Mt. Zion Cemetery: Washington, DC, Brief History and Interments, comp. by Paul E. Sluby, Sr. (Washington DC: Columbian Harmony Society, 1984); Paul E. Sluby, Sr., Bury me deep: Burial Places Past...

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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

Series editor: Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia.  Submission deadline: March 17, 2014. Questions: write to managing editor Jesse P. Karlsberg. Southern Spaces, a peer-reviewed, online journal, invites scholars, critics,...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...patterns today called "Rob Peter to Pay Paul." These patterns became popular during the late-nineteenth century and were published under many names during the twentieth. The common element is the...

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

...unfinished. Nannie Coan probably found the unfinished star patchwork after Rosa's death in 1908, when the children went through their parents' household belongings. The label indicates that Nannie made the...

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....