A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...narratives still haunt popular culture. Unlike the recent touring exhibitions of lynching photographs, Walker's art does not give viewers a clear sense of the victims and the victimizers, the people...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
Video Part 2: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War Part 3: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American...
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 Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the rest of the country, Americans had to interact constantly on the banks of the river" (151). It is here that Salafia most takes issue with another recent treatment of...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In North Carolina, the state Supreme Court rejected a request filed by several state organizations asking that recently re-elected Justice Paul Newby recuse...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...outside interests," a recent study has indicated that ninety eight percent of the protestors are from North Carolina. Florida's "Bong Ban" is set to take effect on July 1, 2013. The bill,...
The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
As part of our engagement with scholarship about the US South, we wanted to let our readers know about the recent call for papers from The Southern Quarterly. Please remember...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...far more recent events in the Atlantic World, when in 1966, at the height of the Cold War, a US B-52 collided with its refueling plane and dropped two nuclear...
The Bulletin—September 21, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. A recent report commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trusts, which was conducted by the firm Ecotrust, revealed that overfishing for south Atlantic...
Zircon
...of fifteen books of poetry, most recently Dark Energy (Penguin, 2015). He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek (1999), a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek,...