For the first time since I defended my dissertation a decade ago, I’m back on the Rice campus. Excited to do a couple guest lectures/seminar discussion and a public book talk over the next few days!
Journal of Southern History
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The Journal of Southern History—published by the Southern Historical Association and edited at and supported by Rice University—is a quarterly devoted to the history of the American South broadly conceived. thesha.org/jsh
The SHA is thrilled to introduce “Meet My Book,” at our upcoming conference! This is an exciting new session format at this year’s conference designed for audiences to engage directly with the authors of recently published books in the field.
📘Hi new followers📘 We're here for all things history of the U.S. South, broadly conceived. You can always find what's current and forthcoming in the JSH at thesha.org/contents and get info on article submissions and reviews at thesha.org/submissions
📘Hi new followers📘 We're here for all things history of the U.S. South, broadly conceived. You can always find what's current and forthcoming in the JSH at thesha.org/contents and get info on article submissions and reviews at thesha.org/submissions
The SHA annual Classic Texts interview will be held October 8th at 2:30 ET featuring Gender and Jim Crow by @glendagilmore.bsky.social with comments by the author and Crystal Feimster and Elizabeth McRae. Pre-registration via zoom required. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Happy Labor Day! A great way to catch up on recent publications in southern labor history — and on southern history in all fields — is the JSH annual bibliography, "Southern History in Periodicals." Check out the 2025 Bib in the May 2026 JSH (Vol. 92, pp. 335–402): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
NEW in August: "Children of the Klan: White Supremacist Families in the American South, 1954–1989," by Elke Weesjes muse.jhu.edu/article/997385
NEW in August: "The President's Committee on Government Contracts and the Failed Integration of the Texas Aircraft Industry, 1953–1961," by Joseph Abel muse.jhu.edu/article/997384
NEW in August: "The Atacama in Alabama: South America, the American South, and the Hidden History of the Inter-American Mineral Nitrogen Trade," by Joshua Frens-String muse.jhu.edu/article/997383
NEW in August: "Children of the Klan: White Supremacist Families in the American South, 1954–1989," by Elke Weesjes muse.jhu.edu/article/997385
NEW in August: "The President's Committee on Government Contracts and the Failed Integration of the Texas Aircraft Industry, 1953–1961," by Joseph Abel muse.jhu.edu/article/997384
NEW in August: "The Atacama in Alabama: South America, the American South, and the Hidden History of the Inter-American Mineral Nitrogen Trade," by Joshua Frens-String muse.jhu.edu/article/997383
What's everyone reading in #southernhistory this semester?
David Silkenat@davidsilkenat.bsky.social · 2mo agoGrad seminar readings this semester
NEW on @projectmuse.bsky.social -- the August 2026 issue of the Journal of Southern History. It features new work by Joshua Frens-String, Joseph Abel, and Elke Weesjes, as well as the @thesouthernsha.bsky.social Annual Report and Book Reviews. www.thesha.org/contents muse.jhu.edu/issue/57376
Looking for a chapter or article about enslaved women that will actually work well with baby undergrad students. Please recommend any that you've actually used - not one you think or guess might work well. Can be of any vintage, since these are students with no prior experience/knowledge
The Scott Fellowship deadline has been extended to September 1st. Established in 2007, the Anne Firor Scott Mid-Career Fellowship provides $2,000 to scholars who are working on a second book or equivalent project in southern and/or gender history. thesawh.org/prizes-and-f...
NEW in August: "The President's Committee on Government Contracts and the Failed Integration of the Texas Aircraft Industry, 1953–1961," by Joseph Abel muse.jhu.edu/article/997384
NEW in August: "Children of the Klan: White Supremacist Families in the American South, 1954–1989," by Elke Weesjes muse.jhu.edu/article/997385
NEW in August: "The Atacama in Alabama: South America, the American South, and the Hidden History of the Inter-American Mineral Nitrogen Trade," by Joshua Frens-String muse.jhu.edu/article/997383
NEW on @projectmuse.bsky.social -- the August 2026 issue of the Journal of Southern History. It features new work by Joshua Frens-String, Joseph Abel, and Elke Weesjes, as well as the @thesouthernsha.bsky.social Annual Report and Book Reviews. www.thesha.org/contents muse.jhu.edu/issue/57376
Facing the new semester?This teaching issue is full of resources, ideas, inspiration, experience, and expertise ⬇️
Journal of Southern History@joursouhist.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe November issue of the Journal of Southern History features a forum of 21 essays on "Teaching about the South" #openaccess muse.jhu.edu/issue/55697
My fellow historians, which single academic article of yours do you think 'teaches best', i.e. for both staff and students it's doing work that leads to a strong class discussion + students remember it? I am interested in how people see their own work. I'll go first. Hit reply and link your pick!
This is what we mean by the whole “not everything is digitized” — not everything is fully *catalogued* yet! This is at the UK National Archives at Kew.
John Sheridan@johnlsheridan.bsky.social · 3mo agoWell, look at that. A rare copy of the US Declaration of Independence has just turned up, where I work. See: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
We always like to hear about what people are researching, reading, and teaching. What's on your list this summer? 📚✍️
We always like to hear about what people are researching, reading, and teaching. What's on your list this summer? 📚✍️