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

Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones

...Laborers in the Construction of the United States Capitol, Report by the Architect of the Capitol," June 1, 2005, https://emancipation.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/emancipation/publication/attachments/History_of_Slave_Laborers_in_the_Construction_of_the_US_Capitol.pdf. Was this true for the Smithsonian as well? First, a...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...diverse range of wealth, education, and influence, during the age of Jacksonian democracy” (11). He characterizes the early singing schools and conventions less as sites of cultural preservation than events...

The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

...decide what we're going to work on becomes a big discussion. With regards to authority, we're still figuring it out. For different items, we have tags that address multiple sites...