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A Year of Snow Days

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After the Lost Weekend of Spring 2020, American teachers, students, and parents look ahead to a period of prolonged and agonizing uncertainty.

Alex Sayf Cummings August 10, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, coronavirus, Education, the South

A Dam in Slabtown: The Untold History of Environmental Struggles in the New South

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The New South economy was more than a story of extractive industry and environmental declension, argues historian Will Bryan.

William D. Bryan June 21, 2019 book excerpt, built environment, environment, excerpts, the South

The Master Class Is Just Not That Into You

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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.

Casey Baskin March 24, 2019 Aneurysms, Best of, feminism, gender, poetry, politics, the South, transgender

Cornpone Cultural Politics in The Beverly Hillbillies

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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.

Guest September 25, 2018 book excerpt, excerpts, Popular culture, race, television, the South

Reconciling Race, Slavery, and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

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Following Dylann Roof’s use of a self-compiled archive of Charleston’s enslaved past to justify his June 2015 massacre […]

Guest May 28, 2018 African American history, book reviews, conservatism, memory, more conservatism, race, the South

Quilted History

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Quilting, for my family, is all but a lost art, passed down from the matriarch of each family […]

Unofficial Archives December 26, 2017 Georgia, labor, oral history, the South, Unofficial Archives

What Smokey & the Bandit Can Still Teach Us about the “New South”

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In the summer of 1977 a movie hit the multiplexes, twin cinemas, and dwindling drive-ins of America like […]

Jason Tebbe August 21, 2017 1970s, dog days classics, film, race, the South

White Poverty and the Legacy of Slavery in the US South

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While the moonlight-and-magnolias myth of the Old South continues to persist, the region’s history actually is much more […]

Keri Leigh Merritt May 15, 2017 book excerpt, conservatism, race, the South, whiteness

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