Editors
...Books, 2018); Strom Thurmond's America (Hill & Wang, 2012); and In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press, 2007), which was awarded the Lillian Smith Book Award,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
..."influx" of immigrants into the country. The writer glorified "white Southern heritage," once again using the racist and divisive tactic of making other working people, here and in other countries,...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...pick. It was very educational for me to see how labor worked in the countryside, how few people there were left doing farm labor, even for just a few hours...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...about poor country living in Louisiana, but one whose subjects are actually wealthy, performing poverty and capitalizing on nostalgia for old-fashioned living. or about "true crime" in rural areas, such...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...in a certain area of the country, and the people around me happen to speak a certain way and have a certain set of values, and pursue a certain type...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...the country's premier sites for the purchase of fat hogs, ready for slaughter. But as the pork industry integrated vertically, fewer local farmers bred pigs, and eventually the auction house...
Regions of Alabama
...PhD 1965). He has served as the President of the Southern Historical Society (2003-2004) and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the new Online Encyclopedia of Alabama. Prof. Flynt has actively...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
"Made by Mary Louisa Snoddy Black—‘The Tulip’ design. Cousin Theresa Snoddy helped quilt it." History: The Tulip was one of the most popular appliqué patterns in the Carolina upcountry during...
Good-Bye to All That?
...of the country. That same policy of "Negro-Democratic identification," he added, would attract disenchanted white working class voters in the North as well.1Kevin P. Philips, The Emerging Republican Majority (New Rochelle,...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...and a screened front porch. An oak tree shelters the house from the late afternoon sun. The white iris is in bloom, as is the white wisteria. There is an...