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

Palomares Bajo

...(accessed 12 February 2011). Activist and historian Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia, helped lead early demonstrations, including a first anniversary protest. The erroneously dubbed "Red...

The Bulletin—November 15, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...The statement "Made by Mary Louisa Snoddy" does more than just identify the maker. Mary Kate abbreviated information elsewhere, but here she wrote out her mother's maiden name, revealing that...

Writing Appalachia

...Legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee (2006). In 1858, (West) Virginia artist and author David Hunter Strother confirmed this blend of backwoods and urbane, noting that in East Tennessee...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...the lowest prices and selected with unusual care. His LADIES' DRESS GOODS are of the latest and best styles, and purchased with a view to economy, beauty, and elegance." Although...

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...track line from the corner of Broad and Marietta streets along Broad street to Houston, thence to Hillard and to Highland avenue and to Edgewood. This line was subsequently extended...

The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey

...its terrible beauty, its violent and troubled past,"2Natasha Trethewey, "How Seamus Heaney Influenced Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey," The Daily Beast, September 3, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/03/how-seamus-heaney-influenced-poet-laureate-natasha-trethewey.html, quoted in Joan Wylie Hall, "Guest...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...for stories untold. That might be worth a celebratory parade. About the Author Elizabeth Engelhardt, associate professor of American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas,...