Frank Willis
...worked for the government — I held his scrawled hate mail to the light. I don't care now that Chuck Colson has a prison ministry, or that G. Gordon Liddy...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...studies that question the extent to which empathy can counter racial prejudice—such as philosopher Stephen T. Asma's contention that human capacity for empathy does not easily extend beyond an individual's...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...his and later generations with the idea "that there was historical logic in the right of secession . . . that the South fought its fight gallantly . . ....
The US South and the 2008 Election
...American politics wasn't that difficult. The key was to figure out who hates whom — "That is the secret." This formula, which reached its apotheosis in the Rovean politics of...
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...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...and heard. When journalists asked William H. Jones, leader of the camp near Sikeston, what it was all about, he replied that after having been turned out of their homes...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...and other scholars have been so busy whittling away at that old standard story that today only a stump remains. Even the National History Standards, written and approved during a...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...he recalled. "I learned that on the front porch at night, when my grandmother and other people would talk about what the situations were and what needed to be done,...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...the poorest families in Bolivar. Pushing against the monocrop culture that had rendered many Black sharecroppers jobless, the NBCFC grew crops that would meet nutritional needs: protein-rich nuts, peas and...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...over the world diehard fans of Sheriff Andy and Deputy Fife (more on that later), is also on the program. Journalists from the local media, following a tradition that began...