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Jim Kibler

For Dove and Flag: Grandpa Connelly’s Mules

By James Everett Kibler

I hope Grandfather fed them wellFrom out his meager store of cornOr fodder pulled by Mother‘Neath a blazing autumn sun–So hot sometimes she saidThat she and sister sickenedTo the vomit stage, and tender armsWere sliced… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Jim Kibler
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Post-War Reconstruction of the Southern Mind Through Education Reform

By James Everett Kibler
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  • 2019 Summer School: The New South
  • Jim Kibler

On Ballylee: The Enduring Legacy of Our Fathers’ Fields

By Robin Spencer Lattimore

A retrospective review of Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story (University of South Carolina Press, 1998) by James Everett Kibler, Jr. On June 7, 1998, I opened a copy of The State newspaper from Columbia,… »

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The Music and Legacy of Singing Billy Walker

By James Everett Kibler
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  • 2018 Summer School: Southern Identity Through Southern Music
  • Jim Kibler

How Jakob Emig Fought the Yankees

By James Everett Kibler

From the front porch, Jakob Emig could look across fields where his winter wheat greened nicely. An old man now, with sons gone off to war, he lived mainly in a woman’s world of married… »

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  • War for Southern Independence
  • Yankees

Taking Root

By Alan Harrelson

A review of Taking Root: The Nature Writing of William and Adam Summer of Pomaria by James Kibler (editor) and Wendell Berry (Foreword) (University of South Carolina Press, 2017). Perhaps land is more important to… »

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  • Pomaria
  • Wendell Berry

Georgia Scenes

By James Everett Kibler

When Georgia Scenes came from an Augusta, Georgia press in 1835, the literary world realized (to varying degrees) that here was a new kind of book. It took a discerning critic like Edgar Allan Poe… »

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Home

By Paul H. Yarbrough

Mary Fahl sang the beautiful song, “Going Home,” for the movie Gods and Generals. Such lyrics and tune that reached into my Southern psyche as to remind me of what the fight was all about.… »

  • Jim Kibler
  • Paul Yarbrough
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Literature

Era of the Sow’s Ear

By James Everett Kibler

A Review of My Silk Purse and Yours: The Publishing Scene and American Literary Art by George Garrett, University of Missouri Press, 1992 My Silk Purse is a collection of 36 of George Garrett’s essays… »

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  • Jim Kibler
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Singing Billy Walker and Amazing Grace

By James Everett Kibler
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  • 2015 Summer School The Southern Tradition
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