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Category: Black Belt

The swath of formerly rich farmland from Meridian, Mississippi to Tuskegee, Alabama. So-called for its black soil and for its slave-holding plantations

This Sunday: J. Mills Thornton and Randall Williams

I got this message in my email and thought more folks would be interested: Please join us at the NewSouth Bookstore on Sunday, November 20 at 2pm for a special event. Historian J. Mills Thornton III will speak about and sign copies of his newest book, Archipelagoes of My South: Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830-1965. Author Jane Dailey calls this new work “a marvelous collection of essays on the South. Based on exhaustive research and ranging across two centuries,” Dailey adds, “Thornton’s prose is always lively, his… Read more This Sunday: J. Mills Thornton and Randall Williams →