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

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...demeanor of Parks's subjects belies the injustice of the "separate but unequal"1Charlayne Hunter-Gault, "Doing the Best We Could with What We Had," in Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl,...

The Chesapeake Bay

...swans and set hunting seasons and bag limits for migratory waterfowl, such as Canada geese, ducks, and rail. More recently, the Bay has been the subject of one of the...

Lafayette, Louisiana images

...that part of south Louisiana settled in the late eighteenth century by French-descended refugees fleeing British rule in Canada. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]

...in triple rows of diagonal lines. These lines were not marked beforehand but quilted intuitively, as the distances among the triplets vary noticeably. This may be the result of a...

The US South in Global Contexts

Part 2: Dr. Marshall Eakin "Origins of the Old South" Part 3: Dr. Natalie Ring "Encountering the Problem South in the Late Nineteenth Century" Part 4: Dr. Tara McPherson "Wal-Mart...

Inside Poor Monkey's

...are generally eager to talk. Crowds rarely exceed two dozen at any given time. Traditional blues bands as well as fraternities from nearby Delta State University sometimes book the lounge,...

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

...Brothers, An Exhibit with an airplane made of cigars at the Florida State Fair, Tampa, Florida, 1941. Catalog no.: B29-f-00003493. Burgert Brothers, A man serenading a señorita at the Davis...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II

...Rare Book Library, March 29, 2016. Photograph by Kelly Gannon. Courtesy of Kelly Gannon. Today, as a doctoral student in Emory University's Institute for the Liberal Arts, I research contemporary...

Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway

...GeoBrowse tool allows visitors to browse documents in the collection by geographical location. Beyond the political and legal challenges, the actual construction of the Parkway proved difficult at best and...