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LGBTQ+ Studies May 28, 2023

With Hawks and Angels

Episodes from a Southern Life

Joel Lafayette Fletcher, III

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
In this episode of Queer Voices I talk to Joel Lafayette Fletcher III about his book With Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life (UP of Mississippi, 2023) About the …

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Interviews with scholars of the American South about their new books.

Food May 26, 2023

Ed Mitchell's Barbeque

Ed Mitchell, Ryan Mitchell, and Zella Palmer

Hosted by Laura Goldberg
Ed Mitchell’s journey in the barbeque business began in 1991 with a lunch for his mama, who was grieving the loss of Ed’s father. Ed drove to the nearby Piggly …
Political Science May 22, 2023

Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood

White Women, Class, and Segregation

Rebecca Brückmann

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation (U Georgia Press, 2021) offers a comparative sociocultural and spatial history of white supremacist women involved in massive resistance. The …
Think About It May 20, 2023

Cleo McNelly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"

Book Talk 60

Cleo McNelly Kearns

Hosted by Uli Baer
Celebrated, censored, canceled: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn cannot be avoided. William Faulkner called Twain “the father of American literature.” Toni Morrison explained that “the brilliance of Adventures of …
American South May 13, 2023

30 Days a Black Man

The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South

Bill Steigerwald

Hosted by Boris Karpa
The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no …
Madison's Notes May 11, 2023

The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Lee

A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo

Allen C. Guelzo

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
Why should we study Robert E. Lee? Why did he make the fateful decision to betray his country? How should we judge Robert E. Lee? Allen C. Guelzo, Director of …
Anthropology May 8, 2023

Between Heaven and Russia

Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Hosted by Kendall Dinniene
How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin’s New Russia. Historically …
General History May 8, 2023

When the Smoke Cleared

The 1968 Rebellion and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital

Kyla Sommers

Hosted by Catriona Gold
In April 1968, following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., a wave of uprisings swept across America. None was more visible—or resulted in more property damage, arrests, or federal …
General History May 2, 2023

Capital's Terrorists

Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chad E. Pearson

Hosted by Douglas Bell
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers, government officials, journalists, and powerful individuals deployed a variety of violent tactics to control ordinary people and workers who sought to secure power …
American South April 29, 2023

The Southern Way of Life

Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South

Charles Reagan Wilson

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life--a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in …
African American Studies April 28, 2023

To Tell a Black Story of Miami

Tatiana D. McInnis

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
In To Tell a Black Story of Miami (UP of Florida, 2022), Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city's material realities to challenge the image …
African American Studies April 22, 2023

Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration

The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate

Thomas Aiello

Hosted by James West
In this episode, Thomas Aiello joins E. James West to discuss Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate (University of Georgia Press, 2023).  Building on his …
American South April 21, 2023

Memphis Hoops

Race and Basketball in the Bluff City, 1968-1997

Keith Brian Wood

Hosted by Troy Hallsell
Memphis Hoops: Race and Basketball in the Bluff City, 1968-1997 (U Tennessee Press, 2021) tells the story of basketball in Tennessee’s southwestern-most metropolis following the 1968 assassination of Marin Luther King Jr …
African American Studies April 8, 2023

My Soul Is a Witness

The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching

Mari N. Crabtree

Hosted by Adam McNeil
In My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching (Yale UP, 2023), Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left …
Military History April 8, 2023

The Lion and the Fox

Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

Alexander Rose

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War—and the …
Catholic Studies April 7, 2023

In the Shadow of Ebenezer

A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II

Leah Mickens

Hosted by Allison Isidore
The history and practices of African American Catholics has been vastly understudied, and Black Catholics are often written off as a fringe sector of the religious population. Yet, Catholics of …
Political Science April 3, 2023

The Nature of Slavery

Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World

Katherine Johnston

Hosted by Susan Liebell
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World (Oxford UP, 2022) interrogates how people with an interest in African slavery manufactured and publicly disseminated a baseless …
American South March 27, 2023

Southern Beauty

Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South

Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd

Hosted by Brandon Jett
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd's book Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South (U Georgia Press, 2022) explains a curiosity: why a feminine ideal rooted in the nineteenth century continues …
Military History March 26, 2023

Black Cloud Rising

A Novel

David Wright Faladé

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia, and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and …
Women's History March 23, 2023

Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women

Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right

Robin M. Morris

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right (U Georgia Press, 2022) is a statewide study of women’s part in the history of conservatism …