Southern Cultures: Volume 21, Number 4 - Winter 2015 Issue

The past is never dead. On the anniversaries of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, the release of The Birth of a Nation, and Ken Burns’s The Civil War, Southern Cultures examines historical tensions that still resonate. This issue also finds a disappearing tobacco culture in photos and poetry, what’s really behind the nickname
Tar Heel,
and antebellum southern travelers on their visits north.