The Border South
...from the deeper South dismiss these places as not representative of the region; at other times Northerners make the comment, often with a sigh of relief that the person would...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University. He has received a number of awards for his photographic work including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985); Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound:...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Charles Egbert Craddock (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941), 127. What made southern local color writing exceptional wasn't its "mind" or any particular historical "burden," but instead its...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
Reading John Lane reads the poem "Returning Home, Saxon Mills." Poem text. About the Author John Lane teaches environmental studies at Wofford College where he also directs the Goodall Center for...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...his teens, he served as a combat medic in the South Pacific. After the war he married Brenda Fisher, whom he had met at college. They moved to North Carolina,...
Birdhouses
...significance. Having lived my life in the US South, growing up in rural South Carolina as a descendent of generations of subsistence farmers on both sides of my family, I...
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...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...procedural rules that give Democrats a strong voice in legislative debates." The North Carolina NAACP has organized a series of protests every Monday since April 29, 2013 in opposition to cuts in...