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My route home from Norfolk, Virginia to Montgomery, Alabama went a little further inland, running through…
The South has long been an agricultural region, but Southern culture’s ties to the land changed dramatically in the mid-twentieth century, when more people began…
The South is a place where history matters, even to those who didn’t necessarily share in the specific history they have discovered later. Sometimes, our narratives are remembered, but…
In the South, where family is important, mothers play vital roles in our lives as caregivers and housekeepers, as nurses and counselors, even as a family’s moral compass. As…
Among the foods that are inarguably Southern, grits rank at or near the top. The narrative that says grits are of, for, and in the South is chiseled in…
We tend to believe about the modern South that racial protests on campuses, Confederate flags, and the presence of Ku Klux Klan are vestiges of the bygone Civil Rights era in the 1960s. In this essay…
In discussions of Southern culture, mythic terms like “the land” and “landscape” come up often. Where these terms are usually used in narratives about utilitarian concerns…
“Right is slow and tardy . . .”
In this essay, Robin Helms Allen weaves her way through a discussion of the politics…