August’s free e-book is here! Check out Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield the […]
Free E-book Giveaway: JOURNALISM AND JIM CROW
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Free E-book Giveaway: A HISTORY OF THE OZARKS, VOLUME 1
July’s free e-book is here! Check out A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks by Brooks Blevins before the month is over! Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. […]
Q&A with Kristine M. McCusker, author of JUST ENOUGH TO PUT HIM AWAY DECENT
Kristine M. McCusker, author of Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955, answers questions on her new book. […]
Q&A with Taylor Hagood, author of STRINGBEAN
Taylor Hagood, author of Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? This […]
Q&A With Brooks Blevins, Author of History of The Ozarks, Vol.3
Brooks Blevins, author of A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers, answers questions on his scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways in his book. Q: Why did you […]
Q&A with Candace Bailey, Author of Unbinding Gentility
Candace Bailey, author of Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South, recently answered some questions about the inspirations behind and discoveries she made while writing her new book. […]
Fannie Barrier Williams celebrated
Progressive Era activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams was one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation. A new effort to honor the woman who was a prominent spokesperson […]
Throwbacklist Thursday
The Zika virus. It’s making headlines and provoking anxieties. A disease-causing pathogen carried by Aedes mosquitoes—the culprits behind yellow fever, dengue, and chikungunya, among other ills—Zika was isolated in Uganda in […]
Throwbacklist Thursday
A Hard Fight for We: Women’s Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina, by Leslie A. Schwalm African American women fought bravely and tenaciously for their freedom during the […]
Throwbacklist Thursday
Drink bothered the Founding Fathers. Not on a personal level, of course. John Adams drank a tankard of hard cider with his breakfast and George Washington went on many a bender. […]
Survey Says!: The King Is Dead
This week marks the anniversary of the death (?) of Elvis Presley, a transformative cultural figure of the twentieth or any other century. If you have memories of that afternoon in 1977, […]
Daisy Turner’s words
Daisy Turner was a woman of many words. The storyteller and poet was a living repository of history. She related the stories of her own family, from the abduction of […]