Mississippi Delta
...the region's economic and political life for generations. The Civil War and Emancipation brought major changes to the Delta, challenging the preeminence of the planter definition of the Delta as...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
..."part of a larger effort to slow down the changes engulfing the South."9"Another monument," The Anniston Star, November 21, 2005. Also stalling the plans for a marker was the continued...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...offers a method for examining nature and culture inside the Jackson Tract. Lumbermen, foremen, workers, and reformers generated a series of conflicts in this time of change in peonage labor...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
..."long history of stylistic exchange and mutual influence" with black gospel music and their near parallel commercial development during the early and middle twentieth century. A segregated society and record...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
Blog Post The activism of Appalachian women who took up the fight for justice in the 1960s and 1970s pulsed outward from a core ethic of care. Caregiving animated their...
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...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...War marred wheat fields and obliterated the Mason-Dixon line as a border of political consequence. Max Grivno's valuable book teaches us similarities between emancipation and other changes in the labor...
Editors
...former managing editor of the SRC’s quarterly journal, Southern Changes. Her most recent book, Rethinking the American Environmental Movement Post-1945, was published by Routledge Press in 2019. William G. Thomas III John and Catherine...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...“It is now, as it once was, a relatively healthy place.” Six centuries ago, well before the Columbian Exchange began, small bands of indigenous inhabitants enjoyed the bounty of the...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...it and a stuffed toy gorilla sticking out of one end. The metamorphosis that changes the shanty into a party-land affects its proprietor and his regulars. Most days, as he...