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Southern States

Southern Harm

By William Faulkner,

We are faced with two apparently irreconcilable facts in the South: the one being the decree of our national government that there be absolute equality in education among all citizens,…

Tyranny of the Minority

By Rebecca Solnit,

Think of our democracy as a house we built in 1776, big enough only for Christian, property-owning white men. Over the next two centuries, various groups struggled to make it…

The Monument Wars

By Rebecca Solnit,

For years, whenever I was in New Orleans, I used to run past an equestrian statue just outside the voluptuously green City Park. Though it is situated at a major…

Weary Oracle

By Dawn Lundy Martin,

By Dawn Lundy Martin. Martin is the author of four books of poetry, including Good Stock, which will be published by Coffee House Press in 2016. She teaches at the…

The Civil Rights Act’s Unsung Victory

By Randall Kennedy,

And how it changed the South

You Had to Be There

By Adrian Nicole LeBlanc,

On the road with Doug Stanhope

Bob Shacochis’s “Written in the Big Wind” (1991)

By Harper’s Magazine, on November 20, 2012

Why development persists in coastal areas, despite the threat of hurricanes

Pack-mules in the mountains

Art by Kara Elizabeth Walker,

Cotton hoards in southern swamp

Art by Kara Elizabeth Walker,

Citizen Walmart

By Dan Halpern,

The retail giant’s unlikely romance with small farmers

The elder modernist

By Wells Tower,

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