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        August 26, 2021 -
        
  
        Our monuments, markers, and other historical sites shape how we remember our past — with implications for the present. Writing for Southern Exposure magazine in 2000, sociologist and people's historian James Loewen journeyed through the South's memorial landscape and found that, all too often, it got the story wrong. Loewen died this month at age 79. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        August 1, 1988 -
        
  
        Archaeologists are unearthing new evidence of the critical role slaves played in shaping the early South.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        December 1, 1978 -
        This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 6 No. 4, "Still Life: Inside Southern Prisons." Find more from that issue here.