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

How the Court Killed the Voting Rights Act

...he applied for a promotion to become a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in 1985, Alito wrote, "In college, I developed a deep interest in constitutional law, motivated in large part...

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

...years of planning and a 2009 amendment to a City Code that barred new monuments in the plaza celebrating historical events occurring after 1821.16David Nolan, interview with the author, March...

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Photographic print. Hood's leadership at Chickamauga won him a promotion to lieutenant general on February 11, 1864, and...

Trouble the Land: The City Too Busy to Hate

...(1:08) Narrator: When Grady proclaimed a New South, he coined a phrase and cast an image that Atlanta would promote for decades to come.   By the early 1960s, growing Black...

Religion and the US South

...evangelists, and congregational-based authority all promoted acceptance of Protestantism among the Cherokees and other Southeastern Indians. When the federal government forced removal of the Five Civilized Tribes to the Indian...