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New South

The Battle of Athens, Tennessee

By Neil Kumar

On August 1, 1946, a group of Southern World War Two veterans in Athens, Tennessee, fought and won the only successful armed insurrection in the United States since the War of Independence. These brave men… »

  • Battle of Athens
  • Neil Kumar
  • New South
  • Southern History

The Colored Sacred Harp

By Tom Daniel

I have written here before about the history and mechanics of Sacred Harp singing, shape-notes, and Singing Schools.  James Kibler has delivered some truly excellent talks about Singing Billy Walker and the origins of Amazing… »

  • B.F. White
  • Colored Sacred Harp
  • Judge Jackson
  • New South
  • Singing Billy Walker
  • Southern Music
  • Southern Religion
  • Tom Daniel

The Strange Career of Segregation

By Jack Trotter

In the beginning, there was no segregation, certainly not in the sense that we commonly use that term today. Consider in evidence our Southern distinctiveness, which is rooted in a folk culture compounded of black… »

  • C. Vann Woodward
  • Jack Trotter
  • New South
  • Northern Studies
  • Racism
  • Slavery
  • Zora Hurston

Rebuilding from the Rubble

By Walt Garlington

‘ . . . you know only A heap of broken images . . .’ –T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land I.  Destruction The description of the South as a land that has fallen into… »

  • New South
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Southern Literature

Southern Populism and the South’s Agrarian Identity

By John Devanny

In what passes for political and cultural discourse today, the term “populist” is something of a pejorative, conjuring up images in the mind of the cultural and academic elite of dangerous folks with pitchforks and… »

  • Agrariansim
  • John Devanny
  • New South
  • Populism

Don’t Remove Confederate Monuments

By Philip Leigh

This essay was presented at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on the New South. In 1965 Texas novelist William Humphrey wrote: If the Civil War is more alive to the Southerner than the Northerner… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • New South
  • Philip Leigh

Strom Thurmond, the “Dixiecrats,” and Southern Identity

By Michael Martin

This essay was presented at our 2019 Summer School on The New South. James Strom Thurmond, or Strom, was born on December 5, 1902 in Edgefield, South Carolina. This historic county was also the home… »

  • Dixiecrats
  • Michael Martin
  • New South
  • Strom Thurmond

Where the Grapes of Wrath are Stored

By John Devanny

This essay was presented at our 2019 Summer School on the New South. Fundamentalism is often viewed as the most Southern of religions. Yet this is not so.  It was an alien seed planted in… »

  • John Devanny
  • New South
  • Southern Religion

Punished with Poverty

By Clyde Wilson

A review of Punished with Poverty: The Suffering South-Prosperity to Poverty & the Continuing Struggle (Shotwell, 2016) by James Ronald and Walter Donald Kennedy This is one of the most important works of American history… »

  • Book Review
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Donnie Kennedy
  • Featured
  • James Ronald Kennedy
  • New South
  • Reconstruction
  • The War for Southern Independence

No Eulogies

By Robert Hoyle

In I Kings 21, we see that Naboth did not feel that he had the right to sell the family land no matter how much money King Ahab offered. The land was not his except… »

  • Agrarianism
  • New South
  • Robert Hoyle
  • Southern Culture

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  • 2012 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature III
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