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American South
Interviews with scholars of the American South about their new books.
November 19, 2024
Brassroots Democracy
Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Wesleyan UP, 2024) recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orlean…
November 18, 2024
Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina
In 1708, the governor of South Carolina responded to a request from London to provide a detailed account of the colony's population. Among the groups …
November 14, 2024
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Today’s book is: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Seal Press, 2024) by Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson. Black resistance to white suprema…
November 8, 2024
Texas Book Festival 2024
I spoke with Hannah Gabel, Literary Director of the Texas Book Festival. The Festival first began in 1995, and has since donated over $3.5 million to …
November 6, 2024
Morningside
On November 3, 1979, as activist Nelson Johnson assembled people for a march adjacent to Morningside Homes in Greensboro, North Carolina, gunshots ran…
November 3, 2024
Savings and Trust
In Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W. W. Norton, 2024), Justene Hill Edwards exposes how the rise and tragic failure …
October 31, 2024
Hungry Roots
A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the region. Depictions of Appalachian food culture and p…
October 19, 2024
Hispano Bastion
In Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860 (University of New Mexico Press, 2023), historian Dr. Michael J. Alar…
September 30, 2024
The Holocaust and New World Slavery
The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world s…
September 23, 2024
In Silence or Indifference
Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and s…
September 17, 2024
Baking in the American South
Witness the rise of Southern baking from the humble, make-do recipes of earlier generations to its place as one of the world's richest culinary tradit…
September 7, 2024
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
In 2010, Isabel Wilkerson spoke to the Institute about the fifteen years she spent reporting and writing her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic …
September 1, 2024
Pocahontas and the English Boys
In Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia (New York University Press, 2019), Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Silver Profes…
August 31, 2024
High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac
In his recent book, High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor (The Kent State University Press, 2024), Edwin P. Rutan II reha…
August 25, 2024
'We Want Better Education!'
In 'We Want Better Education!': The 1960s Chicano Student Movement, School Walkouts, and the Quest for Educational Reform in South Texas (Texas A&M UP…
August 22, 2024
The Enslaved and Their Enslavers
In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825 (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023), Edward Pearson offers a…
August 14, 2024
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
Poet Laureate of Kentucky Crystal Wilkinson’s food memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Count…
August 6, 2024
Red Dead's History
Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. Beloved…
August 3, 2024
Generations of Freedom
In Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865 (U Georgia Press, 2021), Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of gender a…
July 28, 2024
Bring Judgment Day
Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous - as was, according to …