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

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...projects may take any of a number of forms. Please contact us if you have any questions about our process, infrastructure, or other aspects of digital project publishing. Southern Spaces editors are...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...contact with their Benson and Snoddy relatives living in the area, and they probably pieced quilts, embroidered, crocheted, or knitted while visiting family and friends. Construction: Unlike the other family...

The Border South

...we quickly discover that the South was not closed but permeable, not sealed airtight but punctured with openings. The region included Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, in the east and stretched...

Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy

  In the dream that recurs, like a bird returning, the place is still as it was—as though they went away, years ago, fully intending to be back by first...

The Bulletin—November 15, 2012

...country remains dominant in a number of southern states. Remarking on the similar results of the 2008 presidential election in his Southern Spaces piece "The US South and the 2008...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...the Atlanta Metropolitan Area detailing Collier Heights. Map courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user keizers and Open Street Map. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.5. As of 2016, Collier Heights is...

Whiskey and Geography

Shooting Creek Making Whiskey in the Backcountry Whiskey making, while rare in southern England, was highly developed in both Scotland and Ireland by the time of the Ulster emigration. We...