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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]

...patterns today called "Rob Peter to Pay Paul." These patterns became popular during the late-nineteenth century and were published under many names during the twentieth. The common element is the...

Failed Memory Exercise

...And turned east, clattering toward the cotton gin, And returned empty, and faded beyond the track. Beyond those yards, where one day the sallow Dozers rolled and skinned back the...

Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers

..."original values of the old African cultures still have profound meaning today."3John Biggers, typescript draft of travel diary, John Biggers Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library, Emory University. Cotton...

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

...havoc on farmers and ranchers across a broad swath of the United States. On Monday the United States Department of Agriculture announced that it would buy $170 million of pork,...

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...

Finding Media

...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...

Gone With the Wind

...the pines, which are not there anymore. It would be Sunday, and he would wait for the rooster to crow over the screen door's creaking. It would be Sunday, and...

Off-Season

...for a desk on cinder block. He chuckled much like you at the sight of me, but the fields and breaking horses, justified my ninety pounds of lean. Next day...