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

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

...eight large crazy-pieced blocks arranged around the central star. Starting in the center of each nineteen-inch foundation square, Nannie worked outward, adding pieces by hand, until the foundation was covered....

The Bulletin—September 21, 2012

...Historical Association and the Society of American Archivists, the Association of Canadian Archivists, and others. Georgia would have been the only state in the nation to close its central state archives....

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]

...painstaking "by the print" method. In each bandanna, she quilted a line down the center of the figured white handkerchief border, and added parallel lines on either side. The central...

Whiskey and Geography

...of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton was oblivious to whiskey’s centrality, the whiskey rebels showed Americans that citizens had to be involved in their own governance. Whiskey had linked farmers politically,...