The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...more recently, Kari Frederickson, Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013). —the role of local boosters, corporations, and federal spending, the...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...and sandy loam soils well suited for agriculture. A mythical presence in American history, the Mississippi defined the culture and economy of Middle America along its length. Native Americans settled...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
...of the national self into its ‘southern other’” Part 5: Greeson discusses the focus of national writers on the internal “Plantation South” About Jennifer Rae Greeson received her PhD in American...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
...Richard White is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University. He has written widely about the American West, Native American History and environmental history. He has won...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
...to the proposed mammy memorial in Washington DC, and the mammy figure within Lost Cause discourse. About Kimberly Wallace-Sanders Kimberly Wallace-Sanders is Associate Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies...
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...
Naming Each Place
...magazines, including The Iowa Review, Oxford American, and New England Review, and his honors include fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland....
Inside Poor Monkey's
...global landscape. Poor Monkey’s Lounge has been featured as a cover photograph of the Oxford American, a two-page spread in Annie Leibovitz’s American Music, photos in Vanity Fair and Esquire...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...long-form interpretive and critical pieces result from extended scholarly engagement with a topic, frequently breaking new ground in critical regional studies, African American, Native, and American Studies, women's and gender...