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by Jocelyn R. Neal
“One of the challenges—and, simultaneously, deep pleasures—of studying the South is that the disciplinary walls of the academy neither contain nor constrain the work.” What makes the South a region distinct from its surroundings, and what makes it tick? These sorts of questions are at the heart of Southern Studies, an enterprise unbounded by academic »
A Life Lost (and Found) in the Annals of Bryce Mental Hospital
by Lindsay Byron
This article first appeared in the Summer 2014 Issue. For most of my youth, Elizabeth Glynn Griffitts (my paternal grandmother) was a hushed subject. I distinctly remember a gathering at my Aunt Janet’s home when I was about thirteen. It was the first time I had ever seen a photograph of Elizabeth. She was regal, »
The 1891 Train Wreck at Bostian's Bridge
by Scott Huffard
“When train number nine on the Western North Carolina Railroad tumbled off Bostian’s Bridge in 1891, it ignited a media frenzy, as well as a firestorm of outrage, a detailed investigation, a compelling mystery, and a series of unanswered questions.” Norfolk Southern locomotives still rumble periodically over Bostian’s Bridge trestle, a 300-foot long stone bridge »
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by Natalie Minik
“When the unlimited energy of adolescence comes to bear on the limited experience of childhood, the results often swing toward one of the poles – an enthusiastic confirmation of the culture a child grew into or a bold rejection of the culture they grew out of.” We devote our teenage years, perhaps more than any »
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by Mark A. Johnson
“‘Feet commenced to pat. A moment later there was dancing on the sidewalks below. Hands went into the air, bodies swayed like the reeds on the bands of the Congo.'” In 1909, three white politicians—Edward H. Crump, Joseph J. Williams, and Walter W. Talbert—vied to become the next mayor of Memphis. Each of the candidates »
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by Bill Koon
“Some devout Baptists complained that there was too much booze in a mini bottle for one drink; the rest of us complained that there wasn’t enough.” William Faulkner must have smiled down from heaven back in 2010 when his birthplace, New Albany, Mississippi, went wet—or at least damp—by making the sale of beer and “light »
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by Christopher A. Cooper,
H. Gibbs Knotts
“At mid-century, the South had no Republican senators and only two Republicans in the 105-person southern House delegation. By 2000 [both] delegations were majority Republican.” You don’t have to be a historian, a political scientist, or even a particularly astute political observer to know that the South has moved from one-party Democratic control to a »
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by Donna Tolley Corriher
“Maggie’s neighbor-women saw a young woman just like themselves, with no children to feed, trying to build a life, and so they helped her, unquestioning in recognition that she would help them in return. This was so.” She was the only child born to parents with children from earlier marriages. America Lewis and James Henry »
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by JL Strickland
“Joe cackled fiendishly, addressing Vernon through the closed lid. ‘Who’s got the last laugh now, big boy?'” When young men of my generation were asked to be pallbearers at a funeral, they knew they had been accepted into the ranks of southern manhood. An even higher masculine honor was an invitation to “sit-up with the »
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by Todd Boss
“…flavored of tin from the lip of the cup of a dented thermos passed between us—” Apple Slices—eaten rightoff the jackknife inmoons, half moons,quarter moons andcrescents—stillsummon commonsummer afternoonsI spent as my dad’sjobsite grunt
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by Fred Hobson
Berkley Books, 2013 After writing a well-received memoir, Gods of Noonday, about growing up the daughter of Baptist missionaries in Nigeria, Elaine Orr has produced a well-wrought novel about another missionary, this one a century earlier, in West Africa. A Different Sun was “inspired,” Orr writes, by the diary of Lurana Davis Bowen, who served »
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by Michael McCollum
Harvard University Press, 2010 In Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature, Jennifer Greeson is not concerned with southern identity or what the South is; rather, she explores what role the South has played in the broader culture of the United States. Employing a comparative, transnational approach, Greeson looks to answer the »
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by Brian Grabbatin
University of South Carolina Press, 2012 For the most part, existing studies of the environmental movement in the United States overlook the South. The Environmental History and the American South book series published by the University of Georgia Press addresses the temporal dimensions of this omission, but there is still much to learn about the »
