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

Brushes with War

...General Sherman's approval, General George Stoneman's mounted troops hoped to grab headlines by pressing south to liberate Andersonville; instead, most were captured and marched to the infamous prison. In the...

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...

Submission Guidelines

...the publication. All Southern Spaces articles, digital projects, and photo/media essays pass through a rigorous, double-blind peer review process with at least two external reviewers. All reviews, blog posts, videos, and presentations...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...York and Atlanta, most others ("The Displaced Person," "Greenleaf," and "The Enduring Chill") describe " atypical life" on working farms like Andalusia. Writing Rural Georgia O'Connor makes rural Georgia the...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...Carolina, chartered in 1663, had its immediate origins in the counter-revolutionary and deeply conservative English Restoration. Its initial plan for government, the Fundamental Constitutions, endorsed slavery and feudal hierarchy. Moreover,...