John T. Edge's "The Potlikker Papers" looks at multiculturalism, conflict, and civil rights in the American South—all through the history of the region's food. It was 1838, and the young Englishman ...

Among the hundreds of people who rallied for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from South Carolina's State House on Tuesday was Don Doyle, a history professor with an expertise in the Civil ...

“Help Save the Youth of America,” read a flyer of the 1950s from the segregationist White Citizens’ Council. “DON’T BUY NEGRO RECORDS.” As Michael Bertrand continuously demonstrates in his fascinating ...

The History and English Departments offer courses from freshman surveys to doctoral level seminars on African American history and culture. In particular, the History Department teaches specialty ...

In the course of our conversation, Yacine Kout mentioned something else—an incident that had happened the previous spring at Eastern Randolph High School just outside Asheboro. On Cinco de Mayo, the ...

Southern hospitality is alive and well in Natchez, Miss. On a trip in April to tour Natchez’s famous historic pre-Civil War mansions, my husband, friend Lana and I arrived at our hotel, the Linden ...