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Historic preservation --- Cultural property. --- Historic buildings. --- Study and teaching. --- Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site (Atlanta, Ga.)

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After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the following fifty years came to represent the contested meaning of the Civil War itself. The war's aftermath brought contentious transition from Old South to New for whites and African Americans alike. Historian William Link argues that this struggle defined the broader meaning of the Civil War in the modern South, with no place embodying the region's past a

African Americans --- Memory --- Social conditions. --- Social aspects --- Atlanta (Ga.) --- United States --- Race relations --- History. --- History --- Influence. --- Retention (Psychology) --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- City of Atlanta (Ga.) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Black people