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

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...evenings. Women made frequent visits with relatives, sometimes for several days at a time, and they carried handwork in order to keep their hands occupied during these visits. In southern...

1108 Dynamite Hill

...imposed higher car insurance fees. When Dr. King asked his brother if he knew anyone who could help, Alfred connected him with John Drew, beginning a relationship that would last...

Consolation

...writing this poem by a pen-light and waiting for Livingston to come with his gun and pull us out and take us back to the idling car, if we could...

Early Roller Coaster Patents

...within the circle and accessible by stairs. In both cases, the passengers are seated facing sideways. The former patent relies on precisely determined distances and heights such that the car...

The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron

The poet tries to make the heron a god, but the heron does not care. The heron wades along the shore, a dark body absorbing light, patience stopping time. The...

Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes

Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...case is groundbreaking because the mother did not undergo prenatal care to prevent her baby’s infection. The baby, now two-and-a-half years old, received antiretroviral drugs thirty hours after birth. The...