Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...Shelby County, Alabama, a county commissioner arrived, hailing the librarian and me. "Happy Martin Luther Coon Day!" he shouted. Earlier this year, on the last day of February, Shelby County's...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...the summer of 1938. By taking to the road, Daniels was following the lead of a number of writers who set out to see the United States in the midst...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Celestine Sibley was one of the most read writers in the southeastern United States during the last half of the twentieth century. Her columns—some ten-thousand during her career—appeared almost daily...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...2014, http://www.aapa-ports.org. Automation has transformed global shipping in the last four decades and divorced port activity from the daily lives of the city's inhabitants, a separation that fundamentally altered the...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...1930s Lee's biographer and the editor of the Richmond News Leader, Douglas Southall Freeman, lived just a few blocks from the monument. Freeman placed Lee at the center of his...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...2006). Bottom, cover to Matthew D. Lassiter and Joseph Crespino's The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009). For many contemporary scholars, the present slipperiness of the US South...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...the last several decades its popularity has been spreading. Even before the publication of the 1991 edition of The Sacred Harp, rumors circulated among Sacred Harp singers that musicologist and...