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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
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Journal of Southern History @joursouhist.bsky.social · Jun 5
📘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 info on submissions and reviews at thesha.org/submissions
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NEW in the February 2026 JSH: The #2025SHA @thesouthernsha.bsky.social presidential address, "Reimagining the American Revolution: Southern Women's Wars for Independence," by Lorri Glover

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February 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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NEW in the February 2026 JSH: "Fashioning an Ornament to the Colony: Imperial Belonging and the Governor's House in Colonial North Carolina," by Christian J. Koot

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View of Tryon Palace, New Bern, North Carolina. Wikimedia Commons.
February 4, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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NEW in the February JSH: "Manly Occupation: Black Civil War Soldiers' Battles over Racism and Manhood across the Occupied South," by Jonathan Lande

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February 5, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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NEW in the February JSH: "Roustabouts, 'Lewd Women,' and the Roots of Jazz in Southern Levee Dives, 1880–1910," by Andrew Miller

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February 5, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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NEW in the February JSH: "Roustabouts, 'Lewd Women,' and the Roots of Jazz in Southern Levee Dives, 1880–1910," by Andrew Miller

muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
February 5, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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NEW in the February JSH: "Manly Occupation: Black Civil War Soldiers' Battles over Racism and Manhood across the Occupied South," by Jonathan Lande

muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
February 5, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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NEW in the February 2026 JSH: "Fashioning an Ornament to the Colony: Imperial Belonging and the Governor's House in Colonial North Carolina," by Christian J. Koot

muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
View of Tryon Palace, New Bern, North Carolina. Wikimedia Commons.
February 4, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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NEW in the February 2026 JSH: The #2025SHA @thesouthernsha.bsky.social presidential address, "Reimagining the American Revolution: Southern Women's Wars for Independence," by Lorri Glover

muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
February 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Per @joursouhist.bsky.social the February 2026 issue of the Journal of Southern History is now live on Project Muse. It’s the first with our new masthead, and I’m delighted that Rebecca Anne Goetz and Crystal ... https://updates.wcaleb.org/2026/02/03/per-joursouhistbskysocial-the-february-issue.html
February 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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The February 2026 issue of the Journal of Southern History has been mailed to @thesouthernsha.bsky.social members and is now live on @projectmuse.bsky.social

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Green banner with vines and reminder bell: New issue Journal of Southern History, February 2026, on Project Muse @thesha.org/contents
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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The February 2026 issue of the Journal of Southern History has been mailed to @thesouthernsha.bsky.social members and is now live on @projectmuse.bsky.social

thesha.org/contents
muse.jhu.edu/journal/685
Green banner with vines and reminder bell: New issue Journal of Southern History, February 2026, on Project Muse @thesha.org/contents
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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📣 Call for Papers and Panels!

BrANCH 2026 Conference at the University of Warwick (October 9-11) 📌 🗓️❗️

We welcome proposals on all aspects of North American history through to the end of the ‘long nineteenth century’

Deadline for Proposals: Friday, April 10

See more details below ⬇️
2026 BrANCH Conference — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
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February 3, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Less than 3 weeks remain to submit or nominate a book for the Center for Civil War Research's Wiley-Silver Prize! First books on Civil War history are welcome! Deadline is Friday, 2/20. @scwhistorians.bsky.social @shearites.bsky.social @joursouhist.bsky.social @shgape.bsky.social
rkdcolby86.bsky.social Robert Colby @rkdcolby86.bsky.social · Jan 7
Civil War historians! If you published your first book in 2025 on a topic related to the Civil War (broadly construed), please consider submitting it for the Center for Civil War Research's Wiley-Silver Prize! The deadline is Friday, February 20.
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February 1, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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You can read more about Claudette Colvin, and other young Black civil rights activists, in Jon Hale's "Future Foot Soldiers or Budding Criminals?: The Dynamics of High School Student Activism in the Southern Black Freedom Struggle" (JSH v. 84, August 2018)

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January 14, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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Facing the new semester?This teaching issue is full of resources, ideas, inspiration, experience, and expertise ⬇️
joursouhist.bsky.social Journal of Southern History @joursouhist.bsky.social · Nov 23
The 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
Forum Teaching About the South https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a972700
January 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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Facing the new semester?This teaching issue is full of resources, ideas, inspiration, experience, and expertise ⬇️
joursouhist.bsky.social Journal of Southern History @joursouhist.bsky.social · Nov 23
The 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
Forum Teaching About the South https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a972700
January 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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The MHA is pleased to announce a new Dissertation Prize to be awarded annually beginning this year. Dissertations written on any aspect of midwestern history or including the Midwest as a critical component of the work are eligible. Only those dissertations defended during 2025 will be considered.
January 8, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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📘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 info on submissions and reviews at thesha.org/submissions
Contents
Contents
thesha.org
June 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Happy New Year!

A new year means another volume of the JSH is newly available on JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social -- Looking forward to revisiting Volume 86 (2020)

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Table of Contents of Volume 86, Journal of Southern History (2020) -- https://www.jstor.org/journal/jsouthernhistory
January 2, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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Good reads all.

My "Teaching the Black South" is included. muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
joursouhist.bsky.social Journal of Southern History @joursouhist.bsky.social · Dec 17
✍️ YEAR IN REVIEW ✍️ Journal of Southern History, Vol. 91

The November 2025 JSH is a special #openaccess issue on "Teaching about the South," with 21 contributors.

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55697
Forum Teaching about the South Hard History in the Hurricane Zone by Julie Buckner Armstrong Teaching the “Other South”: Observations from an Arkansas Secondary Classroom by Zachery Cowsert Teaching about the U.S. South in a French Classroom by Esther Cyna A “Central Theme” in Black History: Teaching about the Black Past Requires Teaching about the South by Pero G. Dagbovie On Teaching Southern History at the “Most Southern University on Earth” by Darren E. Grem Teaching about the South in Mexico: The Place of the South in a Comparative History of the Americas by Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle Teaching the History of the South in the Era of Climate Change by Scot McFarlane Teaching That Changes the Sightlines: From the Enslaved Children of George Mason Project to the History of the Old South by George D. Oberle III and Jennifer Ritterhouse Abraham Lincoln, Katherine Johnson, and Martin Luther King Jr. in Japanese Educational Manga: Three Southerners, Three Americans by Akiyo Ito Okuda The Fall of the Old South? by Jason Phillips Refusing to Teach “the South” by David Ponton III A Pedagogy of Empathy and Self-Interest in Teaching Multiracial History by Alaina E. Roberts Citizenship, Southern History, and the Stakes of Teaching at an HBCU by Maurice Robinson Creating the Migrant South: Democratizing Southern History in a Humanities Laboratory by Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez Teaching Slavery for Accounting and Business Students by Caitlin Rosenthal Bringing History Home in a Virginia Middle School by Scott Sherrill Diverse Perspectives in Southern History by Virginia L. Summey The Pedagogy of Experience: Teaching Southern History at a Mid-Atlantic SLAC by James H. Tuten Palpable and Personal: Teaching about the South on a Former Plantation by Dwana Waugh Teaching the Black South by Kidada E. Williams Constructing a Southern-Centered Multiethnic Play: Teaching about the American South in China by Xie Guorong
December 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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✍️ YEAR IN REVIEW ✍️ Journal of Southern History, Vol. 91

The November 2025 JSH is a special #openaccess issue on "Teaching about the South," with 21 contributors.

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55697
Forum Teaching about the South Hard History in the Hurricane Zone by Julie Buckner Armstrong Teaching the “Other South”: Observations from an Arkansas Secondary Classroom by Zachery Cowsert Teaching about the U.S. South in a French Classroom by Esther Cyna A “Central Theme” in Black History: Teaching about the Black Past Requires Teaching about the South by Pero G. Dagbovie On Teaching Southern History at the “Most Southern University on Earth” by Darren E. Grem Teaching about the South in Mexico: The Place of the South in a Comparative History of the Americas by Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle Teaching the History of the South in the Era of Climate Change by Scot McFarlane Teaching That Changes the Sightlines: From the Enslaved Children of George Mason Project to the History of the Old South by George D. Oberle III and Jennifer Ritterhouse Abraham Lincoln, Katherine Johnson, and Martin Luther King Jr. in Japanese Educational Manga: Three Southerners, Three Americans by Akiyo Ito Okuda The Fall of the Old South? by Jason Phillips Refusing to Teach “the South” by David Ponton III A Pedagogy of Empathy and Self-Interest in Teaching Multiracial History by Alaina E. Roberts Citizenship, Southern History, and the Stakes of Teaching at an HBCU by Maurice Robinson Creating the Migrant South: Democratizing Southern History in a Humanities Laboratory by Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez Teaching Slavery for Accounting and Business Students by Caitlin Rosenthal Bringing History Home in a Virginia Middle School by Scott Sherrill Diverse Perspectives in Southern History by Virginia L. Summey The Pedagogy of Experience: Teaching Southern History at a Mid-Atlantic SLAC by James H. Tuten Palpable and Personal: Teaching about the South on a Former Plantation by Dwana Waugh Teaching the Black South by Kidada E. Williams Constructing a Southern-Centered Multiethnic Play: Teaching about the American South in China by Xie Guorong
December 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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✍️ YEAR IN REVIEW ✍️ Journal of Southern History, Vol. 91

The August 2025 JSH has work by Courtney Moore Taylor, Robert Elder, and Madison W. Cates.

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Green box with the August 2025 JSH table of contents: "A Badge of Slavery: Clothing and Enslaved Teenage Girls' Identity Formation," by Courtney Moore Taylor "Rejecting Restraint: The 1856 Guardhouse Riot and the Roots of Political Violence in Antebellum South Carolina," by Robert Elder "Homeplace Politics on the New River: Rural Environmentalism in Southern Appalachia, 1962–1976," by Madison W. Cates
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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✍️ YEAR IN REVIEW ✍️ Journal of Southern History, Vol. 91

The May 2025 JSH featured articles by George Voelker and Moisés Acuña-Gurrola, as well as the annual bibliography of articles published in southern history.

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Green box with the table of contents from the May 2025 Journal of Southern History: "A Moment in the Sun: Reconstruction in Carroll Parish, Louisiana, 1867–1880," by George Voelker "The Giant Arrives in South Texas: The Molina Civic Association's Fight for School Integration in Corpus Christi, Texas, 1954–1970," by Moisés Acuña-Gurrola "Southern History in Periodicals, 2024: A Selected Bibliography"
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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✍️ YEAR IN REVIEW ✍️ Journal of Southern History, Vol. 91

The February 2025 JSH featured work by Richard Campbell, Brian M. Ingrassia, and Jason Morgan Ward, as well as the #2024SHA presidential address by R. J. M. Blackett

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A green box containing the table of contents for the February 2025 Journal of Southern History: "Abductors/Liberators and the Underground Railroad," by R. J. M. Blackett "The Rise and Fall of the Southern Commercial Conventions of 1837–1839," by Richard Campbell "Good Roads Training: Object Lessons and Visual Spectacle in Early-Twentieth-Century Progressivism," by Brian M. Ingrassia "The WPA Redeemer Narratives: White Mississippians and Reconstruction Memory in the New Deal Era," by Jason Morgan Ward
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Many thanks to our readers, contributors, and supporters this year and to @thesouthernsha.bsky.social --

Happy holidays to all, and we will see you in 2026 for Vol. 92
December 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM