Double Issue, 1996
VOLUME 2: NUMBERS 3 and 4
a special double issue that celebrated the launch of our partnership with UNC Press
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Looking Back
by Hodding Carter
Can a prominent Mississippi liberal love the Battle Flag? The answer may surprise you.
Porch-Sitting as a Creative Southern Tradition
by Trudier Harris, photographs by Roland L. Freeman
Front porch-sitting is not what it used to be, but some traditions need preserving.
Tupelo, Mississippi: Place and Name
by Thomas Harvey
Tupelo is one of the most-mentioned place names in southern geography. The author takes a look at Tupelo's evolving image.
Twistin' at the Fais Do-Do: South Louisiana's Swamp Pop Music
by Shane K. Bernard
Like zydeco and Cajun music, swamp pop is vital to the cultural identity of Cajun and Creole country.
"Where the Sun Set Crimson and the Moon Rose Red":
Writing and Appalachia and the Kentucky Mountain Feuds
by Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee
Convinced in advance that mountain people were benighted and degenerate, outsiders shaped the lore of feuding to suit their own purposes.
The Affable Journalist as Social Critic:
Ben Robertson and the Early Twentieth-Century South
by Lacy K. Ford Jr.
The distinguished South Carolina journalist grappled with the issues of class, race, and industrialization in the South of the 1930s and 1940s.
The Novel as Social History: Erskin Caldwell's
God's Little Acre and Class Relations in the New South
by Bryant Simon
The author explores deep divisions between early twentieth-century South Carolina's farmers and mill hands as seen in the work of Erskine Caldwell and in recent labor history.
Swampland Jewels
by Steve Green
A firsthand look at the artistic and business records of south Louisiana's Goldband enterprises.
South Polls
Happy New Year!
by John Shelton Reed
Examining the persistence of a pyrotechnic custom.
And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi
by Eric R. Burner
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
by John Dittmer
reviewed by Brian Ward
The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics
by George C. Rable
reviewed by Lacy K. Ford Jr.
Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968
by Alan Draper
reviewed by John Salmond
William Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education
by William A. Link
reviewed by Clarence L. Mohr
Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885
by Bernard E. Powers Jr.
reviewed by Charles Pete Banner-Haley
Good Country People: An Irregular Journal of the Cultures of Eastern North Carolina
by Arthur Mann Kaye, editor
Plankhouse
by Shelby Stephenson, photographs by Roger Manley
reviewed by James Applewhite
Living Moments: Confederate Soldiers' Homes in the New South
by R.B. Rosenburg
reviewed by Karen L. Cox
At the Falls: Richmond, Virginia, and Its People
by Marie Tyler-McGraw
reviewed by Christopher Silver
The Fish Factory: Work and Meaning for Black and White Fishermen of the American Menhaden Industry
by Barbara J. Garrity-Blake
reviewed by Michael Luster
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music, VHS video format
by Rachel Liebling
reviewed by Todd Moye