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

Whiskey and Geography

...County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1882), 171, cited in Dunaway, 197. Whiskey was good for helping work, sickness, pain, as well as for making festivities more joyous. Many a...

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Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...

History: The Parlor

...relatives living in the area, and they probably pieced quilts, embroidered, crocheted, or knitted while visiting family and friends. Published: 19 May 2006 © 2006 Laurel Horton and Southern Spaces...

The Bulletin—July 10, 2012

...that federal rgulators have failed to protect coal miners in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia from breathing excessive amounts of toxic coal dust over the last thirty...

"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying

...the Sun (New York: Scribner's,1976), Ian Hamilton's Writers in Hollywood: 1915–1951 (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990), Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1974), and Meta...