Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...quilt during this time. A distinctive imitation-cross-stitch fabric used to fill in between the points of the star to make a circle also appears in both Rosa's Log Cabin and...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...the printed fabrics in Rosa's Log Cabin also appear in Nannie's Cross quilt, which also relies on a light/dark contrast to show off its pattern. Mother and daughters seem to...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...today's Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—were central to early American knowledge production. At first glance the image appears to be a familiar allegory of Europe's conquest of the Americas. It...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...creators of any orientation whose work addresses the lives of LGBTQ+ persons and/or applies queer and feminist theory to various topics. We encourage a diversity of methods and theoretical approaches....
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016), 3–4, 11–13. In a longer history, Cherokees arrived in the southern Appalachians about four-thousand years ago, having...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...in here. More than abstract appreciation, you experience Key West's "One Human Family" philosophy in action. The next day you awake in your bungalow, refreshed. You walk across the mile-wide...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...of approaches for joining geo-spatial analysis and humanistic inquiry. The media-rich lectures published here by Southern Spaces offer fresh perspectives on landscape photography, soundscapes, cities, spheres of cultural influence, and...
Zircon
...Appalachian State, and East Carolina universities. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Morgan was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010. Born on October 3,...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...Kongo simbi provide an interpretive key through which to understand the white bundles and babies that appear in Lowcountry African Americans' Christian conversion experiences, or "seeking" rituals.15Ibid., 242, 245. Brown...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...in the South and changing understandings of authenticity. Miller avoids the familiar approaches to the study of "southern music" in which scholars focus on a particular genre or kind of...