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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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“Antigone’s Stance amongst Slovenia’s Undead.” [PDF]

, 2017
Memorialization in the form of the architectural statue can suggest that our stance towards the past is concrete while memorials in the form of repeated social activity represent reconciliation with the past as a continual process.
Aumiller, Rachel
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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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Memento Mori : Memento Maori – moko and memory [PDF]

, 2009
Moko patterns, mau moko, “wearing ink” is often explained as an act of remembrance, a symbol of honour or success, of grieving or loss. Memento mori, remembering the dead and remembrance of death, pervades the Maori world, and is profoundly expressed in ...
Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia
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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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A review of self-processing biases in cognition [PDF]

, 2016
When cues in the environment are associated with self (e.g., one’s own name, face, or coffee cup), these items trigger processing biases such as increased attentional focus, perceptual prioritization and memorial support.
Cunningham, Sheila J., Turk, David J.
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Place, Time, and Memory

Southern Spaces, 2007
In this abridged version of an illustrated lecture given at Emory University on February 26, 2007, artist William Christenberry introduces major themes in his work and presents examples from more than forty years of photography, drawing, painting, and ...
William Christenberry
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