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

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...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...last shadows, as the people thin, I see a dark woman humming. It could be 1945, or it could be today. She’s headed home, humming some songs she thinks I...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...to be drawn from the 2008 election has less to do with southern politics or history than with political strategy. It is the same for Republicans today as it was...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...the island, but most moved to the mainland after the Sea Island Hurricane of 1893. Many of their descendants today comprise the Gullah-Geechee community in Pin Point, Georgia. Through the...

Mapping Souths

...his map of the South, too, terminates in a project of warfare, this one to suppress the South's revolutionary intentions. Today, the positions staked out by Trescot and Marx seem...

The Chesapeake Bay

...Bay," is similarly recent, perhaps only several thousand years old. But, 10,000 years ago the sea level was 325 lower than today and the Atlantic coastline stood 60 miles offshore...