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New Books in the American South
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Julio CapĂł Jr., "Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940" (UNC Press, 2017)
52 mins; April 12, 2021
B. K. Mitchell, et al., "Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana" (HNOC, 2021)
82 hours 55 mins; April 12, 2021
Thomas C. Holt, "The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2021)
59 mins; April 01, 2021
Mary Ann Cherry, "Morris Kight: Humanist, Liberationist, Fantabulist: A Story of Gay Rights and Gay Wrongs" (Process, 2020)
47 mins; March 30, 2021
Elizabeth L. Jemison, "Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Post-Emancipation South" (UNC Press, 2020)
31 mins; March 30, 2021
Zach Sell, "Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital" (UNC Press, 2021)
72 hours 24 mins; March 29, 2021
David A. Less, "Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World" (ECW Press, 2020)
37 mins; March 25, 2021
Jonathan S. Holloway, "The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans" (Oxford UP, 2021)
45 mins; March 15, 2021
William C. Kashatus, "William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
59 mins; March 12, 2021
B. Brian Foster, "I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life" (UNC Press, 2020)
69 hours 33 mins; March 11, 2021
Michael J. Pfeifer, "The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience" (NYU Press, 2021
75 hours 58 mins; March 09, 2021
Theodore D. Segal, "Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice" (Duke UP, 2021)
46 mins; March 08, 2021
Robert Elder, "Calhoun: American Heretic" (Basic Books, 2021)
51 mins; March 02, 2021
Ty Seidule, "Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
57 mins; March 02, 2021
Kaitland M. Byrd, "Real Southern Barbecue: Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture" (Lexington, 2019)
60 hours 57 mins; February 25, 2021
Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
72 hours 50 mins; February 23, 2021
Studying LBGT Organizing in China: A Conversation with Caterina Fugazzola
44 mins; February 18, 2021
Daniel B. Rood, "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean" (Oxford UP, 2020)
41 mins; February 16, 2021
Paul O. Jenkins, "Bluegrass Ambassadors: The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World" (West Virginia UP, 2020)
33 mins; February 11, 2021
Richard Kreitner, "Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union" (Little Brown, 2020)
75 hours 52 mins; February 08, 2021
Earl Wright II, "Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology" (University of Cincinnati Press, 2020)
63 hours 27 mins; February 04, 2021
Gretchen Sorin, "Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2020)
30 mins; February 04, 2021
Michael Gorra, "The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War" (Liveright, 2020)
36 mins; January 21, 2021
Jason Berry, "City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300" (UNC Press, 2018)
55 mins; January 19, 2021
Chris Hamby, "Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice" (Little Brown, 2020)
36 mins; January 14, 2021
Elizabeth Catte, "Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia" (Belt, 2021)
61 hours 32 mins; December 29, 2020
Queer Voices of the South: Year in Review
70 hours 39 mins; December 28, 2020
Ashon T. Crawley, "The Lonely Letters" (Duke UP, 2020)
64 hours 30 mins; December 22, 2020
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
50 mins; December 01, 2020
Pip Gordon, "Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond" (UP Mississippi, 2019)
63 hours 38 mins; November 17, 2020
John Garrison Marks, "Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas" (U of South Carolina Press, 2020)
72 hours 30 mins; November 05, 2020
Connor Towne O’Neill, "Down Along with That Devil’s Bones" (Algonquin Books, 2020)
59 mins; November 04, 2020
Robert Fieseler, "Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation" (Liveright, 2018)
58 mins; October 30, 2020
Karlos K. Hill, "The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
64 hours 43 mins; October 27, 2020
Morris Ardoin, "Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
56 mins; October 19, 2020
Denise E. Bates, "Basket Diplomacy: Leadership, Alliance-Building, and Resilience among the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, 1884-1984" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
48 mins; October 02, 2020
B. Heersink and J. A. Jenkins, "Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
55 mins; September 10, 2020
John F. Marszalek III, "Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)
31 mins; September 02, 2020
Colin Woodard, "Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood" (Viking, 2020)
40 mins; August 18, 2020
Aaron Carico, "Black Market: The Slave's Value in National Culture after 1865" (UNC Press, 2020)
56 mins; August 17, 2020
Jennifer Atkins, "New Orleans Carnival Balls: The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870-1920" (LSU Press, 2017)
66 hours 27 mins; August 10, 2020
J. Browning and T. Silver, "An Environmental History of the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2020)
56 mins; August 06, 2020
Alex Sayf Cummings, "Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy" (Columbia UP, 2020)
38 mins; August 05, 2020
Anne Lindsay, "Reconsidering Interpretation of Heritage Sites: America in the Eighteenth Century" (Routledge, 2020)
67 hours 34 mins; August 04, 2020
Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky" (Haymarket, 2020)
44 mins; August 03, 2020
Ann Tucker, "Newest Born of Nations: European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy" (UVA Press, 2020)
31 mins; July 29, 2020
Emily Wallace, "Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South" (U Texas Press, 2019)
50 mins; July 24, 2020
Jerry Gershenhorn, "Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2018)
57 mins; July 15, 2020
Nicole Myers Turner, "Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia" (UNC Press, 2020)
56 mins; July 06, 2020
Nicole Maurantonio, "Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
51 mins; July 03, 2020
Michael Goldfield, "The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s" (Oxford UP, 2020)
29 mins; June 24, 2020
Howard Philips Smith, "Southern Decadence in New Orleans" (LSU Press, 2018)
63 hours 32 mins; June 11, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
E. Engelhardt and L. Smith, "The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Table" (Ohio UP, 2019)
55 mins; May 25, 2020
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
59 mins; May 04, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Peter La Chapelle, "I’d Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
60 hours 23 mins; April 24, 2020
Adam H. Domby, "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
55 mins; April 23, 2020
Christopher Tomlins, "In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History" (Princeton UP, 2020)
68 hours 18 mins; April 20, 2020
Mary Stanton, "Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
38 mins; April 15, 2020
Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, "Southern Comforts: Drinking and the US South" (LSU Press, 2020)
60 hours 57 mins; April 10, 2020
Lane Windham, "Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide" (UNC Press, 2017)
44 mins; April 03, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
Jessica Wilkerson, "To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
38 mins; March 27, 2020
John Weber, "From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2015)
40 mins; March 20, 2020
Marcus P. Nevius, "City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
107 hours 32 mins; March 20, 2020
Alan Taylor, "Thomas Jefferson’s Education" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
35 mins; March 16, 2020
Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts, "Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South" (U South Carolina Press)
42 mins; March 13, 2020
Jamie L. H. Goodall, "Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars" (The History Press, 2020)
47 mins; March 11, 2020
Justin Nystrom, "Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
59 mins; March 05, 2020
Ellen Griffith Spears, "Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town" (UNC Press, 2016)
32 mins; February 28, 2020
Emily E. LB. Twarog, "Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America" (Oxford UP, 2017)
40 mins; February 26, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
Bryant Simon, "The Hamlet Fire: A Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives" (The New Press, 2017)
36 mins; February 21, 2020
Donald L. Miller, "Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
85 hours 45 mins; February 19, 2020
Roberts and Kytle discuss competing narratives about slavery in the South, and the fraught history of race, memory and memorialization in the region...
41 mins; February 14, 2020
Megan Kate Nelson, "The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West" (Scribner, 2019)
72 hours 32 mins; February 10, 2020
Blain Roberts, "Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South" (UNC Press, 2016)
38 mins; February 07, 2020
R. Scott Huffard, Jr., "Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in the New South" (UNC Press, 2019)
37 mins; February 05, 2020
Jacob Remes, "Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era" (U Illinois Press, 2015)
41 mins; January 31, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
36 mins; January 30, 2020
Lowell Mick White, "Burnt House" (Buffalo Times Press, 2018)
21 mins; January 28, 2020
Adrienne Petty, "Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2013)
43 mins; January 24, 2020
Brian Cervantez, "Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
56 mins; January 21, 2020
Blake Perkins, "Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks" (U Illinois Press, 2017)
41 mins; January 17, 2020
Mark Barr, "Watershed" (Hub City Press, 2019)
24 mins; January 15, 2020
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
40 mins; January 14, 2020
Chad Pearson, "Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
36 mins; January 10, 2020
Keri Leigh Merritt, "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
32 mins; January 03, 2020
Alex Lichtenstein, "Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid" (Indiana UP, 2016)
38 mins; December 27, 2019
Talitha LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South" (UNC Press, 2016)
37 mins; December 20, 2019
Katherine Rye Jewell, "Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
43 mins; December 13, 2019
Wilson Jeremiah Moses, "Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
63 hours 43 mins; December 10, 2019
Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt, "Reconsidering Southern Labor History" (UP of Florida, 2018)
25 mins; December 06, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Kathryn Holliday, "The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture" (U Texas Press, 2019)
36 mins; December 02, 2019
Cindy Hahamovitch, "The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945" (UNC Press, 2010)
42 mins; November 29, 2019
Michelle Haberland, "Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000" (U Georgia Press, 2015)
46 mins; November 22, 2019
Dave Tell, "Remembering Emmett Till" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
52 mins; November 14, 2019
Kenneth Fones-Wolf, "Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie" (U Illinois Press, 2015)
33 mins; November 08, 2019
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