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Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
Southern Spaces, 2019 In the following excerpt from Civil War Places, William A. Blair reads the inscriptions on the headstones in Section 27 of Arlington National Cemetery for insights into the lives of African Americans at Arlington and other plantations in the Upper South ...
William A. Blair
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"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
Southern Spaces, 2022 Stephanie Rountree examines the relational possibilities of queer performance in Max Vernon\'s The View UpStairs, a play that dramatizes the 1973 Up Stairs Lounge fire in New Orleans.
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Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
Southern Spaces, 2008 Allen Tullos considers the shifting political meanings of Alabama's Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Allen Tullos
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A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
Southern Spaces, 2011 William G. Thomas III reviews the Virginia Historial Society's exhibit, "An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia."
William G. Thomas III
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The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Southern Spaces, 2009 James Oliver Horton explores how slavery is discussed at historical plantation sites.
James Oliver Horton
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The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
Southern Spaces, 2011 In his commentary on the sesquicentennial commemoration of the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia, Edward L. Ayers examines centennial celebrations and considers the problem of memorializing contested and painful history.
Edward L. Ayers
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Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
Southern Spaces, 2012 Exploring the circumstances of the death of Reverend William Richardson, an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister in the Waxhaw district of South Carolina.
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The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
Southern Spaces, 2009 Dorothy Moye explores the prevalence and significance of the X-code, a symbol used by search-and-rescue teams in 2005 to mark searched property in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.
Dorothy Moye
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Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2022 The author analyzes Star Trek and Babylon 5 series as segments of American political culture and collective memory. The purpose of the article is to analyze how American popular culture, represented by the TV series, actualizes and visualizes the ...
M. W. Kyrchanoff
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"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
Southern Spaces, 2010 Ellen Schattschneider, Two reenactors playing Klansmen wait near the Moore's Ford Bridge, Walton County, Georgia, July 25, 2009. Each year since 2005, a group of multiracial activists has reenacted a lynching at Moore’s Ford in rural Georgia in ...
Mark Auslander
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