Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
The Best of the Martins, 2011. Gaither Gospel Series DVD cover. © Slanted Records and The Martins. For the past forty years or so, "southern gospel" has named a professional...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Avalon Project of Yale Law School, accessed August 22, 2013, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp. South Carolina proclaimed its secession and less than four months later fired on Fort Sumter. The Civil War, the...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
"Aint that Something?"
...comfort for Dawn, and it's deeply tied to her family—it's impossible to separate the two. Most of Dawn's family lives in the region, but don't offer much stability—a ragged bunch...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Fort Scott newspapers
...are open questions." Fort Scott Herald. "The Right of Self Protection." April 5, 1879. "Fort Scott has no apology to make for the dreadful deed which was forced on the...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...into the specific. Fortunately there are abundant resources for introductory encounters with the tradition, including many opportunities to attend a singing. Steel discusses The Sacred Harp’s editors and contents, its...