Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...Virginia singing school in the early 1880s. By 1910 he had created the first professional quartet, underwrote the first recordings of white gospel music in 1921, and started the first...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
...Studies from Yale University and is an assistant professor in English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Our South (2010, Harvard University Press)....
Artist Repertoire Index
...You Do It? Jody Man Keep That Cat Man From My House Mama, I Can Lay It Ragtime Love Simon Joe Someday Baby Step It Up and Go Stop Time...
Bricking the Church
...wash of gravestones west, they've buried the wooden snow that answered sarvis in bloom and early morning fogs, in brick, a crust the same dull red as clay in nearby...
The Place of Appalachia
...of mountaintop removal in Boone County, West Virginia, 2009. From NASA Earth Observatory. The struggle over MTR is intensely emotional not only because the stakes are so high but also...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...makes this William Eggleston photograph new. Against the dress, the green grass and corn stalks fade. The light in the overcast sky takes on a kind of lurid hue. The...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...that his state, which has among the highest rates of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, will turn down federal funds to expand Medicaid, even though one...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Appalachia Peter West, Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839-1869 David Wharton, Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities Complete list of Environmental Studies pieces: https://southernspaces.org/category/tags/environmental-studies...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...deployed in the interest of preserving and furthering self-determination. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, she explains, the Choctaws "laid the foundations of the political rhetoric and strategies that they would...