“What is the ‘real’ South?” Harry L. Watson and John Shelton Reed ask in our second issue. “Is there any such thing?” Read on as we explore that question and more in Fall 1994.
"If this is your first look at Southern Cultures, we're glad you've joined us. If you're paying us a return visit, welcome back."
"Public ritual, including funerals for prominent regional figures, nurtured the growing popular belief in a southern cultural identity."
"Phelps's images hold a kind of interest and value that a stranger's cannot."
"Like many other flights of booster fancy, the predictions for WBT would gradually descend to earth."
"What did the Southern Literary Renaissance look like and feel like in the 1920s?"
Exhibition at the Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, through April 1995.
University of Nebraska Press, 1993
Louisiana State University Press, 1992
Louisiana State University Press, 1992
University of Tennessee Press, 1992
University of North Carolina Press, 1993
Louisiana State University Press, 1993
University of North Carolina Press, 1992
1/2-inch video, 28 minutes, color. Appalshop Inc., 306 Madison Street, Whitesburg, KY 41858.
Louisiana State University Press, 1992
University Press of Virginia, 1993
University of Missouri Press, 1993
1/2-inch video, 58 minutes, color. California Newsreel, 149 Ninth Street, No. 420, San Francisco, CA 94103.
University Press of Virginia, 1992.
University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
"Most studies of regional stereotypes have asked people to describe "southerners" in general, even though everyone knows that there are many different kinds of southerners."
"Few know his name."
"And there must be a scar in his heart too. There is in mine, and always will be."
