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...
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....
Submission Guidelines
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Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...in the language of globalization. Despite all these obvious changes and the new levels of interaction existing in these regions, my department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC has...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...plantations," to claim that those plantations contained an "already existing slave labor force" (136) misses the point. As an analytical category in the context of antebellum slavery, "newcomer" meant everything...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...families, reinforcing existing disparities rather than mitigating them.” In Florida, the lastest available numbers show that two out of every three new recipients in its universal voucher programs had incomes...