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

Shreveport, Louisiana images

...Like so many southern cities, Shreveport is trying to reinvigorate its downtown. RiverView is an ambitious project that will eventually feature an amphitheatre, decorative fountains, and boat docks. Published: 28...

Little Creek, North Carolina

...right-of-way on Little Creek, Little Creek, NC, 1998. Stripped hillside, looking South from Little Creek, Little Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Power shovel clearing rubble, Little Creek,...

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...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...that emerged during the late-nineteenth century to become the most common quilting design for Southern utility quilts during the early-twentieth century. The concentric arcs of the "fans" are comfortable for...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...the local militia married Rosa Miller Benson, age twenty-seven. Rosa came from a locally prominent family in the same community. Her grandfather, Robert Benson, migrated to Greenville County, South Carolina,...

Olathe newspaper

...and they should thank their stars they do not live south of the Mason and Dixon line." Published: 6 September 2007 © 2007 Brent M.S. Campney and Southern Spaces  ...

Horton newspaper

...outrage in the South' by Republican papers of Kansas. But as it occurred in Kansas they deem it wise to keep mum. If the young, dissolute hellions were bloodthirsty enough...

Emporia newspapers

...is employed as night man at the Artificial plant was arroused [sic] from sleep at her home at 113 South Mechanic street and discovered standing at her bed side a...

Wichita newspaper

...method employed by the prejudiced south. . . Such tragedies are unlooked for and unexpected at the hands of western people where the hanging of horse thieves has proved about...

Hutchinson newspaper

...a bridge carpenter [named Isaac M.Powell]... He was almost a stranger in town, and probably a southerner."   Published: 6 September 2007 © 2007 Brent M.S. Campney and Southern Spaces...