Recently added articles from The Journal of Southern History:
Commemorating seventy-five years of the Journal of Southern History.(Forum)
Aug 01, 2009 ... IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 1934, WHEN THE SOUTHERN HISTORICAL Association was being formed, the historians involved resolved that the primary purpose of the organization would be "the promotion of interest and research in southern history ...." Those present agreed to establish a periodical, ...
Southern history as U.S. history.
Aug 01, 2009; ... WHAT IS SOUTHERN HISTORY? MORE TO THE POINT, WHAT IS "THE South"? It is a place defined as much by social, cultural, and political dynamics as it is by geography. I am reminded of that fact every time my scholarship is linked to my identity. When people find out that I am a southern ...
The South and the world.(Essay)
Aug 01, 2009; ... THE SOUTH IS A PARTICULAR PLACE WITH ITS OWN DISTINCTIVE HISTORY and character. The South is also part of larger geographical entities: the United States, the Americas, the Atlantic region, and the world. Although these characteristics are not incompatible or mutually exclusive-indeed, ...
Rethinking the "unthinking decision": old questions and new problems in the history of slavery and race in the colonial South.(Essay)
Aug 01, 2009; ... IN RECENT DECADES, HISTORIANS OF EARLY NORTH AMERICA HAVE explored the emergence of the institution of black chattel slavery. They have also investigated ideas of heritable physical differences and inferiorities that justified and defended slavery--concepts that moderns have called race ....
Labor and the idea of race in the American South.(Essay)
Aug 01, 2009; ... A GENERATION AGO, A CALL FOR AN ESSAY ON THE HISTORY OF SOUTHERN labor with a focus on "racial" factors would have prompted a predictable response: a chronicle of white people's exploitation of blacks who lived and labored in the region defined by the boundaries of the Confederate States ...