New Books in the American South
Episodes
Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt, "Reconsidering Southern Labor History" (UP of Florida, 2018)
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt discuss their new edited volume, Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power (University Press of...
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, i...
Kathryn Holliday, "The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture" (U Texas Press, 2019)
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It may only be a slight exaggeration to say that one of David Dillon's career accomplishments was to put the words "Dallas" and "architecture" in the ...
Cindy Hahamovitch, "The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945" (UNC Press, 2010)
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today Professor Cindy Hahamovitch of the University of Georgia discusses her research connecting the global histories of 19th-century indentured serva...
Michelle Haberland, "Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000" (U Georgia Press, 2015)
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Michelle Haberland of Georgia Southern University, author of Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South (University of Georg...
Dave Tell, "Remembering Emmett Till" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at ...
Kenneth Fones-Wolf, "Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie" (U Illinois Press, 2015)
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Kenneth Fones-Wolf of West Virginia University discusses his book, co-authored with Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Struggle for the Soul of the Postw...
John Shelton Reed, "Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s" (LSU Press, 2012)
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John Shelton Reed, William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of sociology (emeritus) at the University of North Carolina, has been observing the South for deca...
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
03 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trad...
Jay Driskell, "Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School" (UVA Press, 2014)
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Jay Driskell of Hood College, author of Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black ...
Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019" (Oxford UP, 2019)
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about...
Timothy Lehman, "Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1866, a sixteen year old cowboy—the name was literal in his case—named J.M. Daugherty bought 1,000 cattle, hired five cowboys, and headed north...
Perla Guerrero, "Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place" (U Texas Press, 2017)
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Perla Guerrero is the author of Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place (University of Texas Press, 2017). Nuevo South explores the...
Greta de Jong, "You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2016)
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Greta de Jong of the University of Nevada, Reno, discusses her book, You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil...
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude t...
Karen Cox, "Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South" (UNC Press, 2017)
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Cox, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses her new book, Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, a...
Andrew C. Baker, "Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The history of metropolitan expansion and suburbanization is often written from the perspective of the city. In Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History...
Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with Rafia Zafar about her 2019 book Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning, from the...
Wiley Cash, "The Last Ballad" (William Morrow, 2017)
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Wiley Cash discusses his novel, The Last Ballad (William Morrow, 2017) writing fiction inspired by...
Gregory P. Downs, "After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War" (Harvard UP, 2015)
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his author...
Evan Bennett, "When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont" (UP Florida, 2014)
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Evan Bennett of Florida Atlantic University, author of When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont (Univ...
Thomas Aiello, "The Grapevine of the Black South" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius. By 1932 the Atlanta World had be...
Jennifer A. Jones, "The Browning of the New South" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The dawn of the new millennium bore witness to an unprecedented transformation of the population in the Southeastern United States as evidenced by Dr....
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this New Books Network/Gotham Center for NYC History podcast, guest host Beth Harpaz, editor of the City University of New York website SUM, interv...
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, "They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South" (Yale UP, 2019)
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in A...
Erin Stewart Mauldin, “Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South” (Oxford UP, 2018)
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The antebellum South was on the road to agricultural ruin, and the Civil War put a brick on the gas pedal. In Unredeemed Land: An Environmental Histor...
Zachary Lechner, “The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980” (U Georgia Press, 2018)
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When talking about the American South in the second half of the twentieth century, popular discourse tended to fall into one of three camps (on occasi...
William D. Bryan, “The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South” (U Georgia Press, 2018)
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Southern capitalists of the postbellum era have been called many things, but never conservationists. Until now. Environmental historian William D. Bry...
Charles Hughes, “Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South” (UNC Press, 2015)
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As America changed in the Civil Rights and Black Power eras, the Southern music industry was changing as well. The music studios of Nashville, Memphis...
Confederate Monuments with Kevin Levin
16 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Can we change minds about Confederate monuments? Kevin Levin is a historian and educator studying the American Civil War and memory. His book, Rememb...
Stephanie Hinnershitz, “A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South” (UNC Press, 2017)
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In her recent book, A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), Stephanie Hinne...
Michael W. Twitty, “The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South” (Amistad, 2017)
19 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The “ownership” of Southern food is a divisive cultural issue, reflective of the ongoing struggle for racial justice in America. Michael Twitty sh...
Brent Walker, “The Hidden South–Come Home” (Beaver’s Pond Press, 2016)
01 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Hidden South–Come Home (Beaver’s Pond Press, 2016) is the result of an ongoing project that documents intimate stories of people who are often...
Daniel Tortora, "Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763" (UNC Press, 2015)
18 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Long viewed conventionally through the lens of inter-European/colonist conflict, warfare in colonial era North America is currently experiencing a res...
Julie M. Weise, “Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910” (UNC Press, 2015)
17 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Julie M. Weise‘s new book Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910 (UNC Press, 2015) is the first book to comprehensively document M...
Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, “Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights” (UNC Press, 2015)
09 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights (The University of North Carolina Press, 2015), Kimberly ...
Glenn Feldman, “Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government” (UP of Florida, 2014)
18 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Feldman is the editor of Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government (University Press of Florida, 2014). Feldman is p...
Glenn Feldman, “The Irony of the Solid South: Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865-1944” (University of Alabama Press, 2013)
25 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Feldman is the author of The Irony of the Solid South: Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865-1944 (Alabama UP 2013). He is professor of history...
Jonathan D. Wells, “Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
23 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It’s getting harder and harder to trailblaze in the field of American Studies. More and more, writers have to follow paths created by others, imposi...
Robert Cassanello, “To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville” (University Press of Florida, 2013)
30 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the rise of Jim Crow in Jacksonville, Florida is in many ways illustrative of the challenges facing newly emancipated African Americans t...
Angela Pulley Hudson, “Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South” (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
20 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Most historians have understood Native American history through the use of the “middle ground” metaphor. Notably, historian Richard White used thi...
Jeff Wilson, “Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South” (UNC Press, 2012)
20 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Americanists have long employed a trope of regionalism to better understand American religions, beliefs, and practices. As many of us know, either by ...
Malinda Lowery, “Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation” (UNC Press, 2010
15 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
When an Atlantic Coastline Railroad train pulled into Red Springs, North Carolina, the conductor faced a difficult dilemma. Whom to allow in coach cla...