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American South
Interviews with scholars of the American South about their new books.
May 1, 2026
The Mask of Memory
In the early twentieth century, a group of white writers, artists, and performers from the cultural hub of Charleston, South Carolina, created and cur…
April 25, 2026
Get It While It's Hot
Get It While It’s Hot (LSU Press, 2026) is an innovative collection that examines an increasingly commonplace belief across the U.S. South—that some o…
April 19, 2026
Commod Bods
The term "commod bod" is used with humor and affection. It also offers a critical way to describe bodies shaped by long-term reliance on U.S. federal …
April 16, 2026
American Bacon
In American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon (U Georgia Press, 2026), Dr. Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How h…
April 14, 2026
Voices from a Century of Struggle
Tuesday, April 7, 2026—Confronting disenfranchisement, legal segregation, and terrorist violence in the aftermath of the Civil War, Black Americans ch…
April 8, 2026
The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River
In his new book, The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World (Brill, 2026) historian Dr. Michae…
April 4, 2026
The Surgeon's Battle
Between May 1 and May 22, 1863, Union soldiers marched nearly 200 miles through the hot, humid countryside to assault and capture the fortified city o…
March 17, 2026
Reassembling the UAW
When Volkswagen’s Chattanooga Assembly Plant opened in 2012, the United Auto Workers were excited by the golden opportunity to organize in the anti-un…
March 16, 2026
A Precarious Balance
Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865 (UNC Press, 202…
March 8, 2026
Black Excellence
A provocative new history of modern black liberalism Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)…
March 7, 2026
Mexico
Mexico is among the most unique nations in the world, writes Northwestern University historian Paul Gillingham in Mexico: A 500-Year History (Atlantic…
March 7, 2026
People of the Wheat
If you’ve ever wondered where your wheat flour is coming from, who is milling it (and how), or how it came to be such an important staple, then this e…
February 27, 2026
A Nation Unraveled
During the American Civil War, clothing became central to the ways people waged war and experienced its cost. Through the clothes they made, wore, men…
February 22, 2026
Making the Latino South
The presence of Latinx people in the American South has long confounded the region's persistent racial binaries. In Making the Latino South: A History…
February 1, 2026
Voodoo
Coined in the middle of the nineteenth century, the term "voodoo" has been deployed largely by people in the U.S. to refer to spiritual practices--rea…
January 31, 2026
Black Folk
In the United States, the stoicism and importance of the “working class” is part of the national myth. The term is often used to conjure the contribut…
January 30, 2026
Return of the King
Return of the King: The Rebirth of Muhammad Ali and the Rise of Atlanta (U Nebraska Press, 2025) tells the story of Muhammad Ali’s return to the ring …
January 20, 2026
We Paved the Way
In the spring of 1969, hundreds of workers, all Black and mostly female, went on strike at Medical College Hospital and Charleston County Hospital to …
January 19, 2026
Taco
Taco (Bloomsbury, 2025) is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. In a narrative that moves from …
January 17, 2026
Radioactive Dixie
How and why did the South’s history, culture, and politics shape the region’s nuclear and energy industries? And how is that history linked to broader…