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

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...use the word "blues" to advertise her traveling act. With her husband William "Pa" Rainey, she toured extensively with a number of different traveling groups, including the famous Rabbit Foot...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...

The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman

...handling unions competed for work along the busy river. In 1935, during the labor-friendly Roosevelt administration, the International Longshoremen Association built on this segregated, sometimes contentious, but often cooperative past,...