Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Tom Rankin, Delta Winter, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 2010. Tom Rankin is stepping down as the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University after fifteen years of service....
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...virtually unrecognizable to those accustomed only to seeing plantations in the Delta or Carolina Piedmont. Whereas in most other places—as the work of Jonathan D. Martin, Calvin Schermerhorn, and others...
Local Color
...that local color writing first articulated for American audiences. From William Faulkner in the Delta to Flannery O'Connor in middle Georgia to Lee Smith in the Appalachians, the South's best...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993) and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (Norton, 2000). Forthcoming books include A...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Oscar Johnston, head of the immense cotton plantation empire owned by the British corporation Delta Pine and Land; William Mitch, organizer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); Charles F....
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...Tennessee onto existing US 23 in North Carolina, Sams Gap, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Howard and Yvonda Jenkin’s nursery at Sams Gap that had to be moved...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...study literature, history, or other humanities—and use computers to do so—are folded into existing disciplines. Andrew J. Torget: I agree with Scott. I think that there will always be a...
A City Divided
...core as density increased (at least initially) but demanded a complete alteration of the existing landscape. About the Author LeeAnn Lands recieved her PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology's...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Civil War, and its aftermath. The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project's comprehensive coverage, rich metadata, and searchable transcripts make the database a highly useful contribution to these existing tools....