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Harry L. Watson
Political rivals Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay shaped American politics during the first half of the nineteenth century. This is an examination of the political context, the language and debates…
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In this issue of Southern Cultures, Muhammad Ali returns victorious to a changed Atlanta, feminist presses flourish in the North Carolina Piedmont, the Vietnam War inspires literature and student protests…
The 7th Music issue from Southern Cultures packs quite a set: Johnny Cash’s last interview, Emmylou Harris as the widow of Nashville, Muscle Shoals and the rise of FAME Recording…
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…
Redemption, resistance, and reclamation. From sin and salvation in urban Atlanta to Edgar Allan Poe in the Lowcountry, from regional pride in Appalachia to coastal decline in the Texas Gulf…
This issue of Southern Cultures finds Sundays on parade in New Orleans, the Nasher’s Southern Accent exhibition, Charles R. Wilson’s last lecture, singing schools in the Ozarks, MLK’s foes interviewed…
David Sedaris’s South. Harlem’s Virginia Outpost. Punks in Pensacola. Sweetgrass baskets of South Carolina. A little known poet of Appalachia. Queer bounce in New Orleans. And more.
Cowboys in Love Valley. The Atlanta Cyclorama. Braceros of Ciudad Juarez. A natural history of Bonaventure. Freedom at McLeod Plantation. Food scarcity in East Asheville.
The Confederate sensibility of loss. Cumberland Gap in photographs. Jimmy Carter’s southernness. Eastern Shore corn pone. Discovering Carl Perkins. And more.
Explores the privilege of perception , participatory archive, self-documentation, and, ultimately, self-preservation. From Hale County, Alabama, to Harlan County, Kentucky, to a Lao Buddhist temple in the mountains of North…
Includes new stories by Robert Gipe, Minrose Gwin, Odie Lindsey, Mesha Maren, Julia Ridley Smith, and Crystal Wilkinson. Plus: Grit Lit and authenticity, Padgett Powell’s queer rednecks , Monique Truong’s…
University Harry L Watson (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
As an engaging and persuasive survey of American public life from 1816 to 1848, Harry L. Watson’s Liberty and Power remains a landmark achievement. Now updated to address twenty-five years…
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Claims for the benefits of homeownership have been largely accepted without close scrutiny. But is homeownership always beneficial for low-income Americans? This book provides a critical assessment of affordable homeownership…
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For those of us who’ve debated mayonnaise brand, hushpuppy condiment, or barbecue style, here is a collection equal to our passions. Culled from our best food writing, 2008-2014, this special…
This issue of Southern Cultures features contributions by Marcie Cohen Ferris, Brendan Greaves, Douglas Mcgowan, Joseph M. Thompson, Julia Cox, William Pym, Max Fraser, Si Kahn, Tina Haver Currin, Samuel…
This issue of Southern Cultures features contributions by DeLana R.A., Adam Gussow, Melissa Gwynn, John Oliver Hodges, Meredith L. McCoy, Anthony J. Stanonis, William Sturkey, and Rachel Wallace.
This issue of Southern Cultures celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the journal’s publication with a special issue titled Backward/Forward. The issue features contributions by Charles Reagan Wilson, Grace Elizabeth Hale…
Celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of Southern Cultures’s publication with a special issue titled Left/Right. Contributors include Joseph Crespino; Dr. William Barber in conversation with Tim Tyson; Stacey Abrams in conversation…
This special issue of Southern Cultures, guest edited by Tom Rankin, features contributions by Natasha Trethewey, Tamika Galanis, Kate Medley, T. DeWayne Moore, Phyllis B. Dooney, Lynn Marshall Linnemeier, Pableaux…
Celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of Southern Cultures’s publication. This issue features contributions by William Sturkey, Randall Kenan, Jess T. Dugan & Vanessa Fabbre, Erin N. Bush, Oliver Clasper, Alex Macaulay…
Guest edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris, the third food issue from Southern Cultures serves up Appalachian chicken and waffles, spot from Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Florida’s Datil peppers, collard sandwiches out…
In this food issue, Southern Cultures goes coastal: Louisiana’s Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, sea-level rise on the Outer Banks, the Crabfather of Colington, Hannah Mary’s corn pone, Apalachicola ecology, and…
Country Queers in Central Appalachia. Icon and Identity at Dollywood. The Soundscape of Harlan County, USA. A Hindu temple in West Virginia, and more. This Appalachia issue is guested edited…
Sir William Craigie,A. J. Aitken,James A. C. Stevenson,Harry D. Watson
This book is intended for all students, scholars, and enthusiasts in the fields of Scots language and history.
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