"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Levine, and many other contemporary scholars brought slave culture and society to the foreground of historical writing.1John Blassingame, The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South, rev. ed. (New...
The US South in Global Contexts
Part 2: Dr. Marshall Eakin "Origins of the Old South" Part 3: Dr. Natalie Ring "Encountering the Problem South in the Late Nineteenth Century" Part 4: Dr. Tara McPherson "Wal-Mart...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
Presentation Part 2: Engelhardt’s discussion of state market bulletins’ history, content, readership, circulation, and archival importance Part 3: Engelhardt overviews the correspondence among bulletin readers and Lawrence Part 4: Engelhardt asks questions such...
Excerpt from James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
...is our concept of Christianity: and this raging plague has the power to destroy every human relationship. I once took a short trip with Medgar Evers to the backwoods of...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...South" is precisely the assumptions that have accumulated around it, the conceptual baggage generated by earlier generations of scholarship and popular belief that, arguably, has served to obscure as much...
The Bulletin—September 21, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...who seems largely to have made the trip as a mission of campaign bridge building. The Clinton whom Toni Morrison had called the nation's "first Black President" sought to parlay...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Greece and Virginia, blurring the categories of “return,” “home,” and “country." Even if they did not make return trips, migrants’ ties to their home countries frequently remained strong and have...
The Boatloads
...like the print of a rubber stamp, rough from reuse. At the bank of the river, hoary old Charon can barely keep up. Each day he has more trips to...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...was many things to us," he recalled. "Preacher, prophet, picker, poet. He had an uncanny way of making whoever gathered around him feel like they were part of the mix,...