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

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...in 1980 still resonates. "At its worst . . . regional identification is an isolationist impulse." He deconstructs an essentialist mountain identity. And yet, "The political value of regional identity...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...inducted into the US Army and served overseas in World War I until mid-1919.11Army separation application #272507 (22 November 1919), Arthur Middleton. In the 1920 census he is living apart...

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

...applications,” press of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, July 6, 2023, https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/2023-07-06/iowas-students-first-education-savings-account-program-generates-more; Robin Opsahl, “More than 29,000 apply for Iowa private-school funds in first year,” Iowa Capital Dispatch, July 6, 2023,...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...with a glazed surface. The particular fabric in this quilt has been identified as typical of the chintzes produced in England in the 1840s, which "show an impressionistic shading of...