Southern history

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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.

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• SOURCE: Facing South
  5/13/2020
  

  Bakari Sellers on a Life Shaped by the Rural South's Civil Rights Movement

  "One of the things that I put in the book is something that was an integral part of my upbringing: My dad always taught me that heroes walk among us."

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• SOURCE: Zocalo Public Square
  5/6/2020
  

  How Covid-19 Exposed the Deep Divide between White Rural Georgia and Atlanta

  by James C. Cobb

  Rural antagonism toward Atlanta has been a defining element in Georgia politics for almost 150 years and today underlies Governor Brian Kemp's potentially disastrous response to Covid-19. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/10/2020
  

  In Ahmaud Arbery’s Hometown, Pain, Anger and Pride in a Shared Racial History

  Brunswick, Ga., gained national attention during the civil rights era for the way black and white leaders had worked together to integrate peacefully.

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• 5/10/2020
  

  What to do about COVID? Start by Listening to People

  by Rachel F. Seidman

  An oral historian of medical care in the South observes that the current crisis shows weaknesses in the fabric of society that would have long been obvious to policymakers if they were more inclined to listen to ordinary people. 

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• 5/3/2020
  

  Healing And Reconciling History 100 Years After the Elaine Race Massacre

  by J. Chester Johnson

  The author's realization that his beloved grandfather had participated in a racist massacre in Elaine, Arkansas led him to an unlikely journey of reconciliation with a descendent of one of the victims of that campaign of terror, and an understanding of the need for honesty about how heritage can excuse racism.

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• 4/26/2020
  

  Tiger King: Lurid Netflix Smash Can Illuminate Southern Queer Cultures (If You Look Closer)

  by John Howard

  Tiger King viewers should look past the show's outrageous elements to consider the political, economic and legal factors that shape queer life in the American south.

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• SOURCE: Tuscaloosa (AL) News
  4/19/2020
  

  A Historic Life

  Friends and colleagues of Alabama historian Sarah Wiggins echoed certain refrains time and again, among them: “She did not suffer fools gladly.”

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• 2/2/20
  

  How the South Dominated American Education

  by John Heffron

  An excerpt from John Heffron's The Rise of the South in American Thought and Education: The Rockefeller Years (1902-1917). 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/21/19
  

  Revitalizing Montgomery as It Embraces Its Past

  Two cultural projects that examine the Alabama city’s role in the civil rights movement are drawing throngs of visitors and encouraging a surge of downtown construction.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/4/19
  

  Red Dead Redemption 2 Confronts the U.S.’s Racist Past and Lets You Do Something About It

  by Jonathon S. Jones

  Poke around the game’s fictional South and you’ll find cross-burning Klansmen, whom you are free to kill.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  1/11/19
  

  Historian Keri Leigh Merritt On Poverty and Privilege

  And how our personal lives often intersect with our scholarly work. 

• SOURCE: Salon
  2-5-13
  

  Michael Lind: The White South’s Last Defeat

  Michael Lind is the author of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States and co-founder of the New America Foundation. In understanding the polarization and paralysis that afflict national politics in the United States, it is a mistake to think in terms of left and right. The appropriate directions are North and South. To be specific, the long, drawn-out, agonizing identity crisis of white Southerners is having effects that reverberate throughout our federal union. The transmission mechanism is the Republican Party, an originally Northern party that has now replaced the Southern wing of the Democratic Party as the vehicle for the dwindling white Southern tribe....