#southernhistory — Public Fediverse posts

Coleridge had his opium visions, but rural porches had patent tonics. Old country peddlers sold laudanum and paregoric by the bottle. Under tin roofs in August heat, folks took their own fever-dream voyages without ever leaving their rocking chairs.

#WyrdWednesday #SouthernHistory #FolkLore

#folk #southernhistory #OdetoMelancholy #ThursdayFiveList

Wildfire by Mandolin Orange, now Watchtower (Civil War) https://youtu.be/e5MhXr7YFJM?si=xgCwEfZa09XE-Aeg

Julie by Rhianon Giddens (Slavery) https://youtu.be/tYuqnUs9gP8?si=kVXWpkS74qzv6i78

April the 14th Gillian Welch (events on same day as Lincoln assassination) https://youtu.be/FjwatDksOvQ?si=_ZndqAKgytYxoCUX

Motherless Children (Hardship/grief) sacred blues song--Felix Dikes https://youtu.be/F0Uy5srWi4o?si=I7tPIvL49KR8CZq6

In the Pines--Lead Belly (origins from 19th cent re: brutal event in Appalachia) https://youtu.be/2MkfTYPmLlA?si=jxs0E2dxcHE2kNvV

"Long was influential in getting Roosevelt the presidential nomination in 1932, but when Roosevelt strayed from his promises to the ‘forgotten man’, he raised hell. [...] Though he was frequently reminded that it was not a junior senator’s place to rock the boat, he paid no attention."

Jefferson Cowie reviews #ThomasEPatterson's #AmericanPopulist: #HueyLong of #Louisiana

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/jefferson-cowie/that-damn-smooth-stuff
#HueyPLong #UShistory #AmericanHistory #SouthernHistory #populism #TheKingfish #books @bookstodon

#ScholarsCircle author interviews

⦁ #DerekBlack, author of #DangerousLearning: The South's Long War On #BlackLiteracy
⦁ #AshleyFarmer, author of #RemakingBlackPower: How #BlackWomen Transformed an Era

https://scholarscircle.org/scholars-circle-book-author-interviews-the-fight-for-black-literacy-women-intellectuals-of-the-civil-rights-movement-february-23-2025/

#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #CivilRights #BlackLiberation #UShistory #contemporaryHistory #BlackStudies #WomensStudies #SouthernHistory #books @histodons @bookstodon

@Deglassco

This article on the Southern Tenant Farmers Union provides helpful background information for making sense of the image:

https://therealnews.com/when-black-and-white-tenant-farmers-joined-together-to-take-on-the-plantation-south

#SouthernTenantFarmersUnion #Arkansas #LaborHistory #SouthernHistory #RuralHistory #USHistory #STFU

"Huey comes to power running against the big corporations. He comes to power working to smash Standard Oil [..] They try to impeach him, they almost do impeach him in his first year as Governor..."

The Life and Times of #HueyPLong

with #RobertMann, author of #KingfishU: #HueyLong and #LSU

https://youtu.be/GM7fb_nVqCg

#TheKingfish #Louisiana #UShistory #AmericanHistory #SouthernHistory #populism #USpol #books

#LettersAndPolitics

#Kingfish / #RandyNewman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riOxEDVfkt8

REVIEW: Kym Register + Meltdown Rodeo employ Southern rock to interrogate the South's legacy of white supremacy -- and to champion its resiliency. With heavy grooves and radical politics, Register and Meltdown Rodeo resist tired stereotypes and forge a path to solidarity.

https://rainbowrodeomag.com/review-kym-register-meltdown-rodeo/

#QueerCountry #Americana #IBelieveInABettersouth #SouthernHistory #AmericanSouth #IndieRock #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusic #TransMusic

A NEW HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (a Ferris and Ferris Book) is available for preorder and on sale 5/2/23 wherever ebooks and books are sold. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469626659/a-new-history-of-the-american-south/
#southernhistory #twitterstorians

#Question: If you were to assign or recommend one #book about/from the US #South, what would it be and why? Asking partially out of curiosity and partially to get the wheels turning for a syllabus.

#syllabus #SouthernStudies #SouthernLit #SouthernHistory #AmericanStudies #AmericanLit #AcademicChatter #Books #Bookstodon #SyllabusPrep