Southern Character
Lisa Tendrich Frank and Daniel Kilbride, eds. Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-3690-8. The fifteen essays in this collection stem from a conference organized in 2005 in...
Most Centenarians in South
Bad news, guys. The chances of making it to 100 are much greater if you’re a woman. The 2010 census found 80 percent of the 53,364 people age 100 or older are women, according to a report out today. For every 100 centenarians, only 20.7 percent are men. The...
Civil War Journalism
New technologies and a growing demand for information during the US Civil War forever changed the nation’s press, according to a book by journalism professor Ford Risley. It was absolutely an important moment in the history of the press,” says Penn State’s Risley....
Dixie in the House
There are three significant things to say about the US House results in the South in the 2012 elections. First, Republicans showed continued strength in the region, making a net gain of seven Southern seats over their already large majority of Dixie’s House...Obiter Dicta
On the eve of our nation’s 249th birthday, a Gallup poll finds that only 58% of Americans feel “extremely” or Read More
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