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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

...Attorney General’s young Republican recruits who sought to overturn the Supreme Court's prior cases about reapportionment and voting rights. When he applied for a promotion to become a Deputy Assistant...

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...