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From Goodwill to Grunge
A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer Le Zotte examines how secondhand goods sold at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales came to be both profitable and culturally influential. Initially, selling used goods in the...
Within the Plantation Household
Black and White Women of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues...
Doctoring Freedom
The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle for...
Capital Intentions
Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, earthquakes, and explosive economic growth. Within this booming marketplace, some women stepped beyond their roles as wives, caregivers, and homemakers to start businesses that...
Lost Revolutions
The South in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
This sweeping work of cultural history explores a time of startling turbulence and change in the South, years that have often been dismissed as placid and dull. In the wake of World War II, southerners anticipated a peaceful and prosperous future, but as Pete Daniel demonstrates, the road into the...
Self-Exposure
Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Few features of contemporary American culture are as widely lamented as the public's obsession with celebrity--and the trivializing effect this obsession has on what appears as news. Nevertheless, America's "culture of celebrity" remains misunderstood, particularly when critics discuss its historical...
"Those little color snapshots": William Christenberry
An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Follow the evolution of the vision and career of one of the South's foremost photographers."Santa Claus had brought me and my sister a small Brownie camera in the late 1940s, and I just loaded it with color film and went out to that Alabama landscape and began to photograph what caught my eye."...
One Place
Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Though artistic and ambitious, Paul Kwilecki (1928-2009) chose to remain in Bainbridge, Georgia, the small Decatur County town where he was born, raised, and ran the family's hardware store. He had always been interested in photography and taught himself how to use a camera. Over four decades, he...
by George A. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Since its original publication by UNC Press in 1980, this book has provided thousands of students with a concise introduction and guide to the history of the classical tradition in rhetoric, the ancient but ever vital art of persuasion.
Now, George Kennedy offers a thoroughly revised and updated edition...
Reading Football
How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions in Reading Football, the first contemporary book about football's formative years.
American...
"Personal in My Memory": The South in Popular Film by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Personal in My Memory"
The South in Popular Film
by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers
with an introduction by Godfrey Cheshire
Alice Walker, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, Joe Flora, Kenneth Turan, Elizabeth Spencer, and Andrew Garrison tell how their favorite Southern films...
Otto Kahn
Art, Money, and Modern Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In the early decades of the twentieth century, almost everyone in modern theater, literature, or film knew of Otto Kahn (1867-1934), and those who read the financial press or followed the news from Wall Street could scarcely have missed his name. A partner at one of America's premier private banks,...
Across God's Frontiers
Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. In Across God's Frontiers, Anne M. Butler traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover,...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 18: Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines how mass media have shaped popular perceptions of the South--and how the South has shaped the history of mass media. An introductory overview by Allison Graham and Sharon Monteith is followed by 40 thematic essays and 132 topical articles...