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

Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration

...Souths Southern Labor Studies Association, New Orleans March 7–9, 2013 The Southern Labor Studies Association is soliciting panels for its 2013 conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference theme, the...

Hutchinson newspaper

Hutchinson Semi-Weekly Gazette, January 21, 1905, "Cold-Blooded Murder."   Cold-Blooded Murder "The victim was a colored man, Exekiel Martin, about forty-five years old, and the murderer was a white man,...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...the US South, 1997–2007." Southern Spaces, June 10, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997–2007. Spitzer, Nick. "Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." Southern Spaces, November 28, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/creolization-cultural-continuity-and-creativity-postdiluvian-new-orleans-and-beyond....

The Bulletin—July 24, 2012

...depicting drought severity across the country, with almost all of Arkansas in severe or extreme drought. Another set of annual drought maps, from the New York Times, demonstrates the extent...

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...

And the Prize Goes to...

...and engage information astutely: lawyers, business people, and other academics. Over the course of the semester, students tracked their progress and actively sought out new strategies for reading and understanding...

The Bulletin—October 18, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

The Border South

...enslaved people (225,483) than Texas, Florida, and Arkansas, and the state contained more slaveholders than any other Southern state except Georgia and Virginia. The single largest slaveholding county in Kentucky,...