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When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this ... narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confe...

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery ... enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neighbor, Jennie Merrill, at her estate. During the attempted robbery, Merrill was shot and killed. The crime drew national coverage ...

Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South - all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox's history of the UDC shows why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure.

With masterful storytelling...Cox uses the 1932 'Goat Castle' murder in Natchez, Mississippi, to reveal the myths, meanings, and mysteries behind Americans' fascination with the Old South. At the heart of this tale is the human wreckage wrought by Jim Crow injustice."--Danielle McGuire, author of "At the Dark End of the Street."over.

With masterful storytelling...Cox uses the 1932 'Goat Castle' murder in Natchez, Mississippi, to reveal the myths, meanings, and mysteries behind Americans' fascination with the Old South. At the heart of this tale is the human wreckage wrought by Jim Crow injustice."--Danielle McGuire, author of "At the Dark End of the Street."over.

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. In telling this strange, fascinating story, Karen Cox highlights the larger ideas that made the tale so irresistible to the popular press and provides a unique lens through which to view the transformation of the US South.

Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture

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This paper examines the Refah Party in Turkey and addresses the following questions: what does it stand for, who leads it, who belongs to it, where is it going? The paper presents some background information about the Turkish secular state, the founding of Refah, the rise of Islamic influence in Turkish politics, and the recent success of the Refah Party. It then discusses the ideology of Refah, specifically as it applies to issues regarding t...