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News Articles: American South

Clarence John Laughlin (American, 1905-1985), The Bat, 1940, gelatin silver print. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, gift of Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Bunnen Collection, 1981.93.

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Spooky, Surreal, Southern: The Work of Clarence John Laughlin, 'Father of American Surrealism'

"There is no exquisite beauty...without some strangeness in the proportion." That's a line from Edgar Allan Poe, the king of the dark and eerie, the...

August 17, 2020
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  • Emilia Brock and
  • Virginia Prescott

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Rebels and Ramblers: New Ken Burns 'Country Music' Documentary

From the Civil War to the Dust Bowl and from baseball to jazz, Ken Burns documentaries have covered a range of critical events in American history and...

September 14, 2019
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By:
  • Emilia Brock and
  • Virginia Prescott
Johnny Cash at his home in California, 1960

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Rebels and Ramblers: New Ken Burns 'Country Music' Documentary

From the Civil War to the Dust Bowl and from baseball to jazz, Ken Burns documentaries have covered a range of critical events in American history and...

April 01, 2019
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By:
  • Emilia Brock and
  • Virginia Prescott
"American Pop" is author Snowden Wright's novel about the Forster family, a Southern dynasty built on a lucrative cola company.

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Author Snowden Wright Chronicles Fictional Southern Cola Dynasty In Novel 'American Pop'

Author Snowden Wright is no stranger to a good Southern epic. His new novel, "American Pop," chronicles the fizzy and flat years of a cola empire and...

February 04, 2019
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By:
  • Elena Rivera and
  • Virginia Prescott
The front page of the first issue of the Western Herald, the newspaper in the gold rush town of Auraria, Georgia.

Georgia Newspapers From Before The Civil War, Now Online

Georgia newspapers spanning the years from the end of the colonial period to the start of the Civil War have been made publicly available via the internet.

January 04, 2019
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  • Grant Blankenship
In a photo from the Shipp Studio Archive, a man and woman sit for their portrait in rural Tennessee.

In Jim Crow South, Tennessee Photographer Captured 'A Community In Black & White'

The Bitter Southerner recently published its first hardcover book. "A Community in Black & White: A Most Unusual Photo Album of One Southern...

December 07, 2018
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  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Virginia Prescott

Wildsam Field Guide Maps Out The American South

" Wildsam " is not your typical travel guide. Created by LaGrange, Georgia, native Taylor Bruce , the highly-designed, pocket-sized Wildsam Field Guide...

October 10, 2018
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Leighton Rowell

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