The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader
Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader is a special anthology of classroom favorites from our first 15 years. Read the entire anthology now on your Kindle or Sony Reader, or follow the links below to read individual articles on Project Muse.
A MOVEABLE MASON–DIXON LINE
Where Is the South? Which South? Where Isn’t the South?
Southern Distinctiveness, Yet Again, or, Why America Still Needs the South
by Larry J. Griffin
Chicago as the Northernmost County of Mississippi
by Anthony Walton
Teaching Gone with the Wind in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
by Mart Stewart
by C. Vann Woodward
In an ever-evolving region, potent markers of identity and pride remain.
Landmarks of Power: Building a Southern Past, 1885-1915
by Catherine W. Bishir
The Southern Accent-Alive and Well
by Michael Montgomery
The Banner That Won’t Stay Furled
by John Shelton Reed
Living with Confederate Symbols
by franklin forts
THE NEW DAYS OF YORE
Country music, the blues, Atticus Finch, and Southern childhoods aren’t what they used to be–and perhaps never really were.
The Strange Career of Atticus Finch
by Joseph Crespino
Peoples and powers intersect, forging and reshaping the South and its Southerners.
Columbus Meets Pocahontas in the American South
by Theda Perdue
A Sense of Place: Jews, Blacks, and White Gentiles in the American South
by David Goldfield
Martin Luther King and the Southern Dream of Freedom
by Timothy B. Tyson
Our Lady of Guadeloupe Visits the Confederate Memorial
by Thomas A. Tweed
And the Dead Shall Rise: An Overview
by Steve Oney
Kudzu, hogs, rednecks, feudin’, and rasslin’ have real stories behind them.
Kudzu: A Tale of Two Vines
by Derek H. Alderman and Donna G’Segner Alderman
“Where the Sun Set Crimson and the Moon Rose Red”: Writing Appalachia and the Kentucky Mountain Feuds
by Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee
The “Tennessee Test of Manhood”: Professional Wrestling and Southern Cultural Stereotypes
by Louis M. Kyriakoudes and Peter A. Coclanis
What interests, guides, and defines Southerners is a diverse collection we can only begin to sample here.
Equine Relics of the Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Most Southern Sport on Earth: NASCAR and the Unions
by Dan Pierce
Adventures in a Foreign Country: African American Humor and the South
by Trudier Harris
Sister Act: Sorority Rush as Feminine Performance
by Elizabeth Boyd
The Death of Southern Heroes: Historic Funerals of the South
by Charles Reagan Wilson