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Some Other News from Around the Deep South #13

November 14, 2017

Some Other News from Around the Deep South offers a periodic look at news stories from the region that may not have gotten so much…
Disrupters & Interlopers: Juliette Hampton Morgan

November 12, 2017

Juliette Hampton Morgan was a librarian in Montgomery, Alabama. She was born in 1914, was a native Alabamian descended from a prominent family, and earned…
Southern Movie 21: “Sophie and the Rising Sun” (2016)

November 7, 2017

Among the plethora of films that deal with some aspect of racial issues in the American South – from the classic In the Heat of…
Alabamiana: JW Dickson, 1854 –1921

October 31, 2017

I first came across the name JW Dickson when I was reading Hassan Jeffries’ Bloody Lowndes about six or seven years ago. Jeffries’ history of…