Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Author Allen Tullos is senior editor of Southern Spaces and associate professor of American Studies at Emory University. He is the author of Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...after the defeat of the Confederate States of America, however, Richmond stubbornly clung to its "lost cause." Led by its veterans and ladies associations, the city put up a massive...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...in my research had been lost to us. In other instances, I found that this history wasn't exactly lost, but rather made incoherent and illegible. Viewing the watercolors John Singer...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...reenactors were white, a number of African American reconstructed regiments, such as the Massachusetts 54th USCT, regularly participate in these events. The reenactment phenomenon has proliferated globally to include battles...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...Elmendorf, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, and Christopher S. Warshaw In Support of Appellees/Respondents, Merrill v. Milligan, July 18, 2022, 7–8, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/230239/20220718132621523_91539%20HARVARD%20BRIEF%20PROOF3.pdf. The brief notes that these numbers do not include settlements....
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...never lost its original popularity as a pleasure ride. The line was soon increased in extent and branches were built to the Piedmont exposition grounds and other points of interest...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Dallas onwards, which treated Deep Ellum as "Harlem in Miniature," "Deep Elem Blues" has served as the emblematic song of the blues experience in Dallas (though it shares a number...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript Dorothy Moye, Upper Ninth Ward house with "KEN" marking from private contractor, 2009. It was a late afternoon in June 2006, and I was lost...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...of something as transformative as I-26 we must value intangible, but real concerns often dismissed as "nostalgia" — heartbreak for times past and beauty lost — joined with an awareness...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008) and Micki McElya, Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave...