Mississippi: State of Confession
...the fiftieth anniversary of Freedom Summer, the murder of three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner), and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The construction of...
Audio Transcript
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Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...stare at us." Bill's eyes angled down, dark and serious, as he spoke into the television camera. "As people find out that you are a homosexual, there's a good chance...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...'Airs,'" writes Simpson, "I have gathered such as are popular, and extensively known. Many superstitious persons, and perhaps many good conscientious, well-meaning Christians, will denounce and reject the work on...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...the left. Coal is a filthy fuel, a major contributor to global warming, yet promises of "good paying green jobs" sound like pie in the sky to working class families...
Regions of Alabama
...of place to "Alabamians," highlighting the good and bad of provincialism Part 4: Dr. Flynt explores the failure of Alabama's political leadership About the Speaker Wayne Flynt, Distinguished University Professor...
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...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...was a good sport, letting the drachmas fall out of his pockets; sparing the girl who spilled punch on his shield; waving as I rode the carousel's hippogriff though it...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...books, Good Measure: Essays, Interviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1993; Boone: A Biography, 2008; and Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion, 2011. He has been...