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William Faulkner writes at a typewriter in front of a messy bookshelf, not looking at the camera.

What to Do About William Faulkner

A white man of the Jim Crow South, he couldn’t escape the burden of race, yet derived creative force from it.

by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on August 8, 2020

Full Pardon and Amnesty

Considering the treatment of Confederate veterans in light of the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the South today.

by Geoff Davidson via The Bitter Southerner on September 6, 2019

Vessel of Antiquity

Influence, invention, and the legacy of Leon Redbone.

by Megan Pugh via Oxford American on March 19, 2019

Sears’s ‘Radical’ Past

How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow.

by Antonia Noori Farzan via Washington Post on October 16, 2018

I Am a Big Black Man Who Will Never Own a Gun Because I Know I Would Use It

On history, race, and guns in America.

by Kiese Laymon via Medium on April 3, 2018

A New Orleans parade, with confetti falling on the heads of men dancing in suits.

Sundays in the Streets

The long history of benevolence, self-help, and parades in New Orleans.

by Leslie Parr via Southern Cultures on December 16, 2016

Plate of fried chicken, hushpuppies, and a biscuit

The Real History of Hushpuppies

Hushpuppies are delicious, iconically Southern, and no one seems to have a clue where they came from.

by Robert F. Moss via Serious Eats on June 23, 2015

A map of the United States divided into regions.

A Balkanized Federation

Without a shared civic narrative – the pursuit of liberal democratic self-government – the rival regional cultures of the United States agree on very little.

via Nationhood Lab

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