  The nucleon spin structure has been an active, exciting and intriguing
subject of interest for the last three decades. Recent experimental data on
nucleon spin structure at low to intermediate momentum transfers provide new
information in the confinement regime and the transition region from the
confinement regime to the asymptotic freedom regime. New insight is gained by
exploring moments of spin structure functions and their corresponding sum rules
(i.e. the generalized Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn, Burkhardt-Cottingham and Bjorken).
The Burkhardt-Cottingham sum rule is verified to good accuracy. The spin
structure moments data are compared with Chiral Perturbation Theory
calculations at low momentum transfers. It is found that chiral perturbation
calculations agree reasonably well with the first moment of the spin structure
function $g_1$ at momentum transfer of 0.05 to 0.1 GeV$^2$ but fail to
reproduce the neutron data in the case of the generalized polarizability
$\delta_{LT}$ (the $\delta_{LT}$ puzzle). New data have been taken on the
neutron ($^3$He), the proton and the deuteron at very low $Q^2$ down to 0.02
GeV$^2$. They will provide benchmark tests of Chiral dynamics in the kinematic
region where the Chiral Perturbation theory is expected to work.
