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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

Introduction to the Battle of Atlanta Project Confederate and Union troops in close combat, Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Painting by the American Panorama Company. The fall of...

Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007

...increasing number of Atlanta-based artists — including Ludacris, T.I., Bonecrusher, Gucci Man, and Young Jeezy — find national audiences, but the exposure of stylistic subgenres associated with Atlanta far outstripped...

A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate

...http://t4america.org/blog/2012/08/07/is-metro-atlanta-vote-a-bellwether-for-transportation-funding/. Robert Carpenter, Tax day Tea Party protest, Atlanta, Georgia, April 15, 2009. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman, the region's trust deficit did not develop by accident...

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

...railroads had a single ticket booth with segregated ticket windows was less innocuous than it might seem.11A Florida statute passed in 1907 required "Separate Waiting Rooms and Ticket Windows," The...

A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl

...Invention of an International City, 1940-1990 (Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1996); Harvey K. Newman, Southern Hospitality: Tourism and the Growth of Atlanta (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999); Larry Keating, Atlanta: Race, Class, and Urban...