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

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...explaining the Act's 1982 changes stated: The courts are to look at the totality of the circumstances in order to determine whether the result of the challenged practice is that...

North Carolina: A State of Shock

...for changes in the state's election laws has been naked partisanship. Every change in North Carolina's new election code was targeted at reducing potential Democratic voters regardless of race, creed,...

St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History

...initially built to house the exchange of foods and commercial goods, newspaper reports and city records document slave sales here. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, entrepreneurs depicted...

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...collectors" to register the names of the authors and titles of books in their collections with the Exchange. Equipped with this master database, the Exchange would serve as a clearinghouse...

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...202. When news of the change in Confederate command reached Federal General William T. Sherman, he asked Schofield, Hood's classmate at West Point, about Hood. Schofield replied that Hood was...