Southern history

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• 1/24/2021
  

  Trump Inflamed the American "War of Sections." What Comes Next?

  by Steve Suitts

  2020 shows the south is arguably still the key region in American politics, but it may not be a stronghold of white conservative politics for long. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/10/2020
  

  Black Southerners are Wielding Political Power that was Denied their Parents and Grandparents

  While the voter mobilization efforts that tipped Georgia's senate races to the Democrats have been much-discussed, they capitalized on a long-term shift in the Black population to the urban and suburban south, a "reverse great migration" that will be politically consequential for years to come. 

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• SOURCE: Reckon South
  1/11/2021
  

  Capitol Riot: The 48 Hours that Echoed Generations of Southern Conflict

  Hours after Mississippi legislators took the final step of removing a Confederate emblem from their state banner, a violent white mob waved the Stars and Bars as it ransacked the U.S. Capitol. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/8/2020
  

  Even if Georgia Turns Blue, North Carolina may not Follow

  by Michael Bitzer and Virginia Summey

  North Carolina's politics have long been characterized by a competition between fairly evenly balanced forces of conservatism and moderation. Democrats who hope to permanently tip the state in their favor are likely to be disappointed. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/17/2020
  

  Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites

  Despite claims by many estates that weddings and events pay for educational programming that addresses the history of slave labor on the property, many still debate the ethics of using plantation properties for celebrations. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/30/2020
  

  A Counter to Confederate Monuments, Black Cemeteries Tell a Fuller Story of the South

  “We put up these Confederate monuments in public squares as a homage to a lost cause that was really a lie. But the real builders of the cities and the states and the nation, their narrative is still not told.”

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  9/22/2020
  

  How the Welfare State Became the Neoliberal Order (Review)

  by Pablo Pryluka

  Although the Tennessee Valley Authority was a pioneering public works project, its alumni worked in Latin America to advance redevelopment projects that elevated the authority of big business, a model now associated with the neoliberal turn in the developed world. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/1/2020
  

  The New Southern Strategy

  The rise of a new generation of Black mayors in Southern cities may signal a new political dynamic as municipal governments draw energy from protest movements and improvise ways to meet public needs, if conservative state governments don't stop them. 

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• SOURCE: WUNC
  8/26/2020
  

  Civil War And Southern Charm: How Hollywood Takes On The South (audio)

  Film experts Marsha Gordon and Laura Boyes talk about watching films that gloss over the darker parts of Southern history, but they also explore how more contemporary films resonate with viewers as true to their own experiences.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/23/2020
  

  The South’s Fight for White Supremacy

  by Jon Meacham

  Edward Alfred Pollard launched the "Lost Cause" mythology with an 1866 book whose legacy has endured as an emphatic defense of white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: Scalawag
  8/3/2020
  

  John Lewis’ Legacy: Four Southern States are Still Battling for Voter Rights

  John Lewis lived to see the birth and dismantling of voting rights that he fought and bled for.

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• SOURCE: Nashville Tennessean
  7/30/2020
  

  Southern Newspapers were Vocal Supporters of the Confederacy. It Lasted for Generations

  For most of American history, newspapers in the South supported the people and systems that promoted and maintained prejudice and discrimination.

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  6/26/2020
  

  My Confederate Past

  by Stuart Stevens

  I ask myself now why did it take so long for me to realize what it might be like for nearly 40 percent of my state to go to school and work under a flag that represented a cause dedicated to the right to own their ancestors? 

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• 6/28/2020
  

  “A Very Different Story”: Marian Sims and Reconstruction

  by David B. Parker

  Marian Sims's 1942 historical novel Beyond Surrender was not nearly as popular as Gone with the Wind. But it reminds us today of a history that might have been--both during Reconstruction and in the popular portrayal of the period.

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• SOURCE: Commonweal
  6/23/2020
  

  American Oligarchy: ‘How the South Won the Civil War’

  A review of Heather Cox Richardson's book How the South Won the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/10/2020
  

  'Gone With the Wind' Reignites Debate as Hollywood Wrestles with its History

  Debate immediately ensued at the 1936 publication of Mitchell's novel, with its nostalgia for plantation life, portrayal of happy slaves and threatening freed blacks, and sympathy toward the Confederate cause.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/1/2020
  

  Confederate Monuments Haunt American Democracy

  by Karen L. Cox

  Confederate monuments, most put in place as white supremacy regained control of the South, testify to continued injustice.

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• 5/24/2020
  

  The Social Psychology of Popular Right-Wing Conservatism

  by Daniel Burnstein

  Right-wing conservative movements are driven by a psychological complex of threat and hostility to heterodox opinion that makes them difficult to stop once they've developed.

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• SOURCE: Bitter Southerner
  5/15/2020
  

  Ahmaud Arbery Holds Us Accountable

  by Jim Barger

  Nobody belonged to the salt marshes of coastal Georgia more than Ahmaud Arbery. His family’s roots there run more than 200 years deep. A native of those same marshes writes about who Ahmaud was, how well he was loved, and what his community must reckon with in the wake of his murder.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  5/16/2020
  

  Award for NC Historian’s Book about Mississippi City

  A Los Angeles cultural and publishing nonprofit is giving its 10th annual book award to a University of North Carolina historian’s account of civil rights in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.