The Southern Mythology of “Uncle William” Mack Lee

“I ‘bey de law of man, de law of nature, and vote…

“The cloud, the stain of human bondage” in Catawba County

“The cloud, the stain of human bondage — the…

Albert Camus on “The Human Crisis”

Lessons from the French Resistance against Nazi Germany

The “Christian Flag” of white identity politics and Christian nationalism

“Soon there were hundreds…

From a “ghastly mistake” to a “near-reign of terror” in NC

The 1920 lynching of Ed Roach and its aftermath in Roxboro…

Ignorance and denial of the early 20th century pellagra epidemic in the South

Four decades of “the four Ds” for the working poor (1900–1940)

The violence of the American Revolution

“In these circumstances, every man holds his life by the most…

Rev. Horace Ulrich Keener: 1801-1856

Methodist circuit rider & school superintendent in Cherokee, NC