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Karen L. Cox: Goat Castle
New from UNC Press Blog August 4, 2017, is the 85th anniversary of the “Goat Castle Murder.” This strange and fascinating tale is recounted in Karen L. Cox’s new book, Goat Castle: A True Story of...
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Karen L. Cox: For Whom the Belle Tolls
New from UNC Press Blog No sooner had I written the last blog post about representations of the South on reality television than another show made it to the air—TLC’s Bama Belles. It seems unlikely...
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The DNC and the National Media—Bringing Southern Stereotypes to a City Near You
New from UNC Press Blog As you know by now, Charlotte, North Carolina was selected to host the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and between Michelle Obama’s email announcing the decision and the...
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When You’re Lookin’ at Her, You’re Lookin’ at History
New from UNC Press Blog Whenever I visit the Thirsty Beaver, a local honky tonk in my neighborhood in Charlotte, I always find something new on the wall that catches my attention—a velvet Hank Jr....
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Remembering the Civil War with Confederate Hair
New from UNC Press Blog With April comes spring flowers, events marking the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, and in states across the South there will be celebrations of Confederate History Month....
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Karen L. Cox: GONE WITH THE WIND as Southern History
New from UNC Press Blog Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that this year marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War epic, Gone with the Wind. The...
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Karen L. Cox: Taragate–A Gone with the Wind Scandal? Not exactly.
New from UNC Press Blog If you were to drive south on I-77 and exit onto Arrowood Road in Charlotte, North Carolina, you would eventually run across a development called “Taragate Farms.” I had no...
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Karen L. Cox: Confederate Tchotkes and the American Dream
New from UNC Press Blog This article is crossposted at Pop South and UNC Press Civil War 150. On a recent vacation to Lake Lure, North Carolina, I drove over to the small town of Chimney Rock where...
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Karen L. Cox: You Don’t Know Dixie—And If You Do, You Should Be Paying...
New from UNC Press Blog This article is cross-posted from Pop South. Recently, The History Channel (THC) televised an hour-long special entitled You Don’t Know Dixie. Most historians haven’t come to...
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Karen L. Cox’s book inspires new conversation, new images of the South
New from UNC Press Blog You’ve been reading great guest blog posts every month this year from historian Karen L. Cox, author of Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture....
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Karen L. Cox: Republican Candidates in the South: A Confederacy of Dunces....
New from UNC Press Blog [This article is cross-posted from Pop South.] Oh, for goodness sake! The Republican candidates for president went South and the next thing you know Mitt Romney touted “cheesy...
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Karen L. Cox: Black Domestic in a Can: A South Carolina Ad Agency “Helps”...
New from UNC Press Blog [ed. note: This article is cross-posted from Pop South, where it was originally published on 4/17 with the YouTube video of the first commercial embedded in the post. As of...
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