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

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II

...Shady Patterson and event coordinator Miriam Denard where each performance might best be stationed to facilitate a "walking tour" performance event. Working in collaboration with LiFT, the students gained encouragement...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...the lowest prices and selected with unusual care. His LADIES' DRESS GOODS are of the latest and best styles, and purchased with a view to economy, beauty, and elegance." Although...

"Little Switzerland"

...entertaining in every way than all the others. The very best people of Atlanta visit it and the universal exclamation is, 'Oh, how beautiful! How gorgeously grand! I never knew...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

...America Southern Part," 1818. From Pinkerton, J., A Modern Atlas, from the Latest and Best Authorities, Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires, Kingdoms, and States;...

Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.

...his archival holdings in the African American collections at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Best known for artist books that narrate African American history in striking...

Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley

...think is the best way— Mitchell: —That’s right— Jim Bunkley: For the sound, that’s the way you have to play. Mitchell: So you learned off Blind Lemon records? Jim Bunkley:...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...down the channel to listen for the baby's dreams — all years after the whorehouses, the fires, Reconstruction and true religion came, after Whitman said his piece and left the...

Gone With the Wind

...into the dark and the twelve miles home. The trains would be gone. The streetcars and buses would be gone. He would creep through the yard as dawn flickered through...

Rent

There were five houses over twenty years. We lived almost a decade in one, a mild, shallow winter in another. We bartered work for rent in the last, the one...

History: The Parlor

  Mid-nineteenth-century homes included a formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such...