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

Consolation

...up Ripley and Traction Streets to Lower Wetumpka Road, past the tangle of railroad but not quite to Chisolm, if we could be waiting in a semi by the road...

The Bulletinβ€”November 15, 2012

...in this piece by Sommer Mathis writing in The Atlantic Cities, about the importance of cities in deciding the election. Metropolitan areas in the US South and elsewhere in the interior...

History: The Parlor

...unspecified bric-a-brac. In contrast, the furniture in the sitting room included, among other items, a walnut writing table, two bookcases with glass doors, one lot of about a hundred books...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...in nearby Wellford. This gift was not named in Narcissa's will, so it may have been presented before the maker's death in 1881. History: The Parlor Mid-nineteenth-century homes included a...

Little Creek, North Carolina

Grave marker from the Woody family cemetery that was moved for I-26, Little Creek, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Mr. Thomas standing next to his parent’s grave in...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...high-profile in advocating a similar strategy for the blue states. But I wonder if Nossiter and Schaller were watching the same election that I was. If there is any lesson...