“Law and order” has often been a flimsy cover for advancing the ruthless interests of white Americans.
Category: the South
The New South economy was more than a story of extractive industry and environmental declension, argues historian Will Bryan.
It’s been a slow news week here in Batavia, Ohio, the taint of America. Apparently the Mueller report (kind of, sort of) came out, and liberals everywhere achieved an unbelievable tantric orgasm nearly two years in the making.
In the last several years, questions surrounding monuments that aim to memorialize Confederate-era actors and…
Like The Andy Griffith Show, the near total absence of black characters on The Beverly Hillbillies made the show’s southernness more viable to its millions of viewers. It taught them that erasing was easier than confronting the weighty problem of white southern racism.
Sometimes, you have a dream whose metaphorical meaning is so thuddingly obvious it almost seems…
Following Dylann Roof’s use of a self-compiled archive of Charleston’s enslaved past to justify his…
To take a bibliography of southern history on its face, one could conclude that urban…
