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

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...be used in another block, but this is not the case. The quilt maker must add quarter-inch seam allowances on all sides when cutting templates for a pattern. The addition...

The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]

...in quilts prior to the era. Chrome orange, a mineral dye, was frequently used as an accent in red and green quilts in the mid-nineteenth century. Construction: Mary's quilt is...

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]

..."sheetings, drills and print cloths, including red fancy bandanas used by railroad men." [Source: Michael Leonard, Our Heritage: A Community History of Spartanburg County (Spartanburg: Band & White, 1986), p....

Substantiation

...courthouse windows where the sheriff shuffles cards for a blind man and the defense team. At a levee camp that night he asks for whiskey and she gives him a...

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...in poetry Part 6: Morgan discusses the tension between the particular and the universal Poems Terroir That quality that seems unique, as thriving from a special spot of soil, air flow...

The Bulletin—April 24, 2013

...the NFL's Atlanta Falcons. The first, Friendship Baptist Church, was founded before the end of the Civil War and has stood at its current location since 1880. Spelman and Morehouse Colleges were...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...p.m. -  Arrive at the farm house of Barney Hester, 2932 Hester Town Road. (This is where the altercation occurred leading to the arrest of Roger Malcom, Sunday, July 14, 1946.) 5...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...quilt during this time. A distinctive imitation-cross-stitch fabric used to fill in between the points of the star to make a circle also appears in both Rosa's Log Cabin and...

Mapping Souths

Essay Stories that use the South by purporting to map it are no new thing, as two nineteenth-century passages responding to the question of southern secession will illustrate: It is...