A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...Atlanta, Georgia, June 14, 1935, the son of William G. Egerton, a traveling salesman, and his wife, Rebecca White Egerton. The family settled in Cadiz, Kentucky, where John remained until...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...his 2005 Southern Spaces presentation "White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta." Post-election conversation has also focused on the continued dominance of the Republican Party in...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...says of Jean W. Cash's 2002 biography, Flannery O’Connor: A Life, let the conversation about the "links between Flannery's life and O'Connor's art" continue.16Gentry, Marshall Bruce. "Reviewed work: Flannery O'Connor: A...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...offered the first chance for a large public of those who had fled to Atlanta or Dallas, Baton Rouge, or Birmingham the chance to come back, view the conditions in...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Lowry [of the Gaither Vocal Band and the Gaithers' inner circle]. Michael actually took us there and Mark and Mike tried to figure out a way for Bill [Gaither] to...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...collection, Florida Memory website, The State Archives of Florida. So influential were Grund's opinions of the US that one scholar referred to him as "The Jacksonian Tocqueville."68Holman Hamilton and James...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...acknowledged: say, the prejudice against blacks, Untouchables, gays, Muslims, Jews, conquered indigenous populations, recent immigrants, women, and other "minorities." It refers to calculated behavior that we sometimes condemn—when we notice...
Seneca Quarry
...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
..."Senate Budget Is Wrong Path for North Carolina: Plan Includes Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Shorts Investments in Vital Services," BTC Reports 19, no. 3 (May 2013), http://itep.org/reports_using_itep_data/2013/06/north-carolina-budget-tax-center-gambling-away-our-future.php; Patrick Gannon,...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...