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Illustration of Pimento Cheese on Bread by Carter.

Pimento-cracy

The history of pimento cheese as a working class fixture and a symbol of Southern culture as seen through mystery novels.
by Cynthia R. Greenlee via Oxford American on March 23, 2021
Flannery O'Connor standing outside at her Georgia home.

How Racist Was Flannery O’Connor?

She has become an icon of American letters. Now readers are reckoning with another side of her legacy.
by Paul Elie via The New Yorker on June 15, 2020

The Grey Gardens of the South

A very real story of southern degradation and decay that made national headlines in the fall of 1932.
by Karen L. Cox via Southern Cultures on January 23, 2020
Photographs of Lilian Smith and Frank Yerby.

Frank Yerby and Lillian Smith: Challenging the Myths of Whiteness

Both Southerners. Both all but forgotten. Both, in their own ways, questioned the social constructions of race and white supremacy in their writings.
by Matthew Teutsch via The Bitter Southerner on January 9, 2020
Daveed Diggs and Lin Manuel Miranda on stage in the musical Hamilton.

Notes Toward an Essay on Imagining Thomas Jefferson Watching a Performance of the Musical "Hamilton"

"But he'd have to acknowledge that the soul of his country is southern; the soul of his country is black."
by Randall Kenan, Ginnie Hsu via Southern Cultures on June 1, 2019

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
Painting of the mouth of a cave.

Down in the Hole: Outlaw Country and Outlaw Culture

Country music has often stood, as it were, with one foot in and one foot out of the cave.
by Max Fraser via Southern Cultures on October 16, 2018
Edna Lewis in the kitchen.

The People of Freetown

Can renowned Southern chef and writer Edna Lewis' radical communist politics be parsed out by analyzing her cookbooks?
by Mayukh Sen via Popula on September 26, 2018

How Ceiling Fans Allowed Slaves to Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners

The punkahs of the Antebellum era served many purposes.
by Eve Kahn via Atlas Obscura on May 14, 2018

A Hardworking Man Named Bob McDill

The steady hand behind more than 30 No. 1 country hits.
by Jennifer Justus via The Bitter Southerner on February 8, 2018

“Like Sonny Liston”: An Appreciation of Tom Petty

Patterson Hood argues that Tom Petty achieved perfection in his songwriting... time and time again.
by Patterson Hood via The Bitter Southerner on October 6, 2017
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“I Wanted to Tell the Story of How I Had Become a Racist”

An interview with historian Charles B. Dew.
by Charles B. Dew, Robin Lindley via HNN on September 10, 2017

Bring the Noize

A search for the source of Southern hip-hop’s magic will always lead you to three men from Atlanta, known to the world as Organized Noize.
by Joycelyn Wilson via The Bitter Southerner on June 27, 2017

Who Owns Uncle Ben?

The roots of rice in South Carolina's Lowcountry are troubling and complicated. Today, we stir the pot.
by Shane Mitchell via The Bitter Southerner on June 6, 2017
The Black Panthers and Young Patriots at a press conference.

The Panthers and the Patriots

The story of how a group of poor whites in Chicago united with the Black Panthers to fight racism and capitalism.
by Michael McCanne via Jacobin on May 19, 2017

America’s Most Political Food

The founder of a popular South Carolina barbecue restaurant was a white supremacist.
by Lauren Collins via The New Yorker on April 24, 2017

A Historian’s Revealing Research on Race and Gun Laws

The notion that gun control has racist origins is popular in gun rights circles. Here's what's wrong with the claim.
by Saul Cornell, Mike Spies via The Trace on November 24, 2015

So You Think You Know the Banjo?

If you think that the banjo can teach us nothing about American history, Southern culture and modern race relations, then you certainly don't know the banjo.
by Jenna Strucko via The Bitter Southerner on January 20, 2015
Food writer Edna Lewis.

What Is Southern?

A food writer's reminiscences of local cuisine in the springtime.
by Edna Lewis via Gourmet on January 1, 2008
Harper Lee

Harper Lee's Only Recorded Interview About 'To Kill A Mockingbird' [AUDIO]

In 1964, Harper Lee talked with WQXR host Roy Newquist for an interview in New York.
via WQXR on January 1, 1964
William F. Buckley Jr. surrounded by piles of books in his office.

What Made William F. Buckley So Unusual

The author of a new biography talks about the conservative journalist’s life and legacy.
by Sam Tanenhaus, Cullen Murphy via The Atlantic on June 1, 2025

How Woodrow Wilson’s Privileged Southern Upbringing Influenced His Love Life

In Wilson’s chivalric framework, women were required to be submissive precisely so that men could protect the weaker sex.
by Christopher Cox via Literary Hub on November 8, 2024
Lillian E. Smith

“You Would Make Little Nazis of Them”: Lillian Smith, Jim Crow, and Nazi Germany

Smith understood why so many white Americans, especially white Southerners, struggled to accept that their society was not so far removed from Hitler’s Germany.
by Matthew Teutsch, Camille Nunnally via COMP on May 22, 2024
A group of Transappalachain migrant workers in Department 312 of the Anderson Delco-Remy plant pose for a photograph in February 1953.

On the New Book, "Hillbilly Highway"

Recovering the long-overlooked significance of the “hillbilly highway” in the US, with implications for labor history as well as US history broadly.
by Max Fraser, Joseph Rathke via LaborOnline on December 15, 2023
An painting depicting a murder ballad, with the murder happening in the background and a band playing music in the foreground.

Blood Harmony

The far-flung tale of a murder song.
by David Ramsey via Oxford American on December 5, 2023
A painting of an American landscape with green hills and a river.

The Early Days of American English

How English words evolved on a foreign continent.
by Rosemarie Ostler via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 15, 2023
A Ku Klux Klan march, late 1800s to early 1900s.

Tracing the Legacy of Southern White Migration

Unlike the Southern whites who moved en masse during the 20th century, these early migrants often had direct, personal ties to the institution of slavery.
by Samuel Bazzi, Andreas Ferrara, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, Patrick A. Testa via Broadstreet on July 1, 2023
The sillhouette of a Civil War statue on a night sky.

The Spirit of Appomattox

Why is Shelby Foote's Civil War subject to so much contemporary debate?
by Jonathan Clarke via The Hedgehog Review on March 1, 2023

TV's Rural Craze & The Civil Rights Movement

At the same time that MLK was using TV to brand Southern sheriffs as obstacles to progress, a Southern sheriff was one of the medium's most beloved characters.
by Bijan Bayne via RogerEbert.com on June 21, 2022
Title card of the article styled like a Tina Turner album cover.

Manhattan in East St. Louis

The Club Manhattan could hold about 250 people. They did not know it at the time, but they were the earliest witnesses to the rise of the Queen of Rock & Roll.
by Maureen Mahon via Oxford American on December 7, 2021
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