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“They Like That Soft Bread”

In Knoxville, Tennessee, folks love sandwiches from a Fresh-O-Matic steamer like they love their grandmas.
by Chelsey Mae Johnson via The Bitter Southerner on January 14, 2020
A pot, a measuring cup, and ingredients for hoppin' john.

Feijoada and Hoppin' John

Dishing the African diaspora in Brazil and the United States.
by Olivia Ware Terenzio via Southern Cultures on November 27, 2019

American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’

What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.
by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on November 19, 2019

Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment

The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The Atlantic on November 10, 2019
African-American cowboys in Bonham, Texas, circa 1913

The Real Texas

What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled?
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on October 24, 2019

The Commercial Rise of Country Music During the Great Depression

The Depression was the gravitational pull that created country stars and their nationwide universe of listeners.
by Christopher C. Gorham via We're History on October 7, 2019

Mass Barbecue is the Invasive Species of Our Culinary Times

There's room for the haute and folk traditions but the market-driven style taking over is the most problematic.
by John Shelton Reed via The American Conservative on September 3, 2019

Moral Courage and the Civil War

Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present.
by Elizabeth D. Samet via The American Scholar on September 3, 2019

A Lifetime Of Labor: Maybelle Carter At Work

Maybelle Carter witnessed the dawn of the recording era and helped create country music as one of the genre's biggest acts.
by Jessica Wilkerson via NPR on August 14, 2019

How the Republican Majority Emerged

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.
by Kevin M. Kruse, Dov Weinryb Grohsgal via The Atlantic on August 6, 2019
Map of New England from 1856.

The 400-Year-Old Rivalry

Understanding the rivalry between England and the Netherlands is crucial to understanding that between New England and New York.
by Liz Covart via The Junto on June 26, 2019

One Reason Why White People in the South Have More Bias Against Black Americans

Research finds that white people in regions that were heavily dependent on slavery are more likely to harbor unconscious racism.
by Tom Jacobs via Pacific Standard on May 28, 2019

Tom Petty: A Cool, Gray Neo-Confederate?

Michael Washburn explains what we can glean from the failure of Tom Petty's 1985 concept album "Southern Accents."
by Michael Washburn, Connor Goodwin via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 5, 2019
Street sign for Flatville, surrounded by flat agricultural fields.

The View from the Middle of Everything

Dispatches From Flatville, Illinois.
by Kristin L. Hoganson via Literary Hub on April 25, 2019

‘Midwesterners Have Seen Themselves As Being in the Center of Everything.’

In “The Heartland,” Kristin L. Hoganson says America’s Midwest has been more connected to global events than remembered.
by Kristin L. Hoganson, Bridey Heing via Longreads on April 23, 2019

“There Is a Scottsboro in Every Country”

A review of two new books that illuminate a range of still unrealized visions of anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-racism.
by Amanda Reid via Public Books on April 11, 2019

Signs of Return

Photography as History in the U.S. South.
by Grace Elizabeth Hale via Southern Cultures on April 1, 2019
Hand-drawn map proposing the Appalachian Trail

An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning

In its original concept, the Appalachian Trail was a wildly ambitious plan to reorganize the economic geography of the eastern United States.
by Benton MacKaye, Garrett Dash Nelson via Places Journal on April 1, 2019

Appalachian Whiteness: A History that Never Existed

The “fetishization” of Appalachia’s supposed racial and ethnic purity and Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship.
by Timothy Pratt via 100 Days in Appalachia on December 24, 2018
A painting entitled "The First Thanksgiving, 1621" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (ca. 1932).

A Brief History of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a holiday about food – but it is more specifically a holiday about food’s absence.
by Rachel B. Herrmann via History Extra on November 21, 2018
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How the Supreme Court Fractured the Nation — and How It Threatens to Do So Again

Abortion and America’s new sectional divide.
by H. W. Brands via Made By History on November 20, 2018

Why is Everyone Suddenly Saying 'Y'all'?

Or better put, why is it something so many outside of the South have recently adopted?
by Bill Black via MEL on November 12, 2018

Confederate Pride and Prejudice

Some white Northerners see a flag rooted in racism as a symbol of patriotism.
by Frances Stead Sellers via Washington Post on October 22, 2018

Living with Dolly Parton

Asking difficult questions often comes at a cost.
by Jessica Wilkerson via Longreads on October 16, 2018

How Midwestern Suffragists Used Anti-Immigrant Fervor to Help Gain the Vote

Women fighting for the ballot saw German men as backward, ignorant, and less worthy of citizenship than themselves.
by Sara Egge via Zócalo Public Square on September 17, 2018

The Environmental Roots of Jim Crow in Coastal South Carolina

On the origins of the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.
by Caroline Grego via Environmental History Now on September 13, 2018

What the Name "Civil War" Tells Us-- and Why it Matters

Today’s battles over Confederate iconography emerge, in part, out of the failure to address the centrality of slavery to the war.
by Gaines M. Foster via Muster on September 11, 2018
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The Legendary Language of the Appalachian "Holler"

Is the unique dialect a vestige of Elizabethan England? Left over from Scots-Irish immigrants? Or something else altogether?
by Chi Luu via JSTOR Daily on August 8, 2018

Pride and Prejudice? The Americans Who Fly the Confederate Flag

A listening tour in Mississippi asks flag supporters why they still support a symbol that represents pain, division and difficult history.
by Donna Ladd via The Guardian on August 6, 2018
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at his writing desk in Vermont.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Hid Out in a Tiny Vermont Village

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's best work was done in isolation, a long way from Soviet Russia.
by Ted Lawrence via Humanities on July 17, 2018
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