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

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...July 22, the Confederates abandoned their efforts to crush the advancing Federal left wing. Their concerns turned to defending Atlanta's remaining railroad supply lines from the west and south. With...

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

...across the South well before then. Writing in 1891, Black academic William Scarborough described one of the New South's most unpleasant innovations as the "the novelty of three waiting rooms—one...