Lokalhistoria

This issue of Southern Cultures celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the journal's publication with a special issue titled Inside/Outside. The issue features contributions by …

Guest edited by Bernard L. Herman, this issue unearths southern things and stuff: Mississippi's Rhinestone Cowboy, West Virginia's last commercial broom-maker, Harriet Beecher …

This is the untold story of Dr. J. D. Harris, an African American physician whose life and career straddled enormous changes for Black professionals and the practice of medicine. …

In the Black Geographies issue, authors roller skate to claim space and joy, examine the role of the King James Version of the Bible in Black placemaking and meaning-making, mine …

In this masterful work of family-focused sociology, Lois Benjamin considers the lives of Pennie and Roscoe James and their children, revealing how a large, close-knit African …

Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of …

This is a collection of case studies of the effects of injunctions in southern towns which is based on court records and interviews with local officials and contestants involved in …

Connecting communities from Corolla in the north to Ocracoke Island in the south, scenic North Carolina Highway 12 binds together the fragile barrier islands that make up the Outer …

Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true …

Born in the Wallingford Clinic in 1949, Barry Buxton called the town of Blowing Rock home during his childhood. The youngest of seven children, he grew up in the mountains …