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

Besieged Terrain

...of Robinson Forest, Reece and Krupa practice a process of active learning: 1.) "see the thing"—taking students to the Forest on overnight trips; 2.) "engage the thing through representation"—reading and...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...the rustic name that the pattern had originated among early settlers on the frontier. For instance, a writer in 1935 stated flatly that "No Colonial home was complete without one...

Emporia newspapers

The Emporia Times and Emporia Republican. "Nigger Assaults White Woman." July 14, 1905.   NIGGER ASSAULTS WHITE WOMAN HOUSE OF MRS. LUSK ENTERED — NIGGER WAS CAPTURED AND IDENTIFIED BY...

Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers

...American composer William Levi Dawson. Visiting both rural villages and burgeoning cities, Biggers was particularly struck by Oku Ampofo, a medical doctor and talented artist based near the Ghanaian capital...