A nation in motion: Norfolk, the Pentagon, and the Nationalization of the Metropolitan South, 1941-1953

The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 167-189

  Sparrow, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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