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

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...red velvet wedding jackets, banjos, hand-carved walking canes, soccer jerseys, foreign-language newspapers, real estate brochures entreating “Come to Virginia!” The exhibit emphasizes the multiplicity of reasons immigrants came to Virginia...

The Bulletin—February 11, 2013

...identified "last-minute, multimillion-dollar . . . upgrades to the Dome’s electrical system, intended to bolster the stadium's reliability" as potential causes. As reported in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, electrical switchgear...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...