In the book, Bishop recounts the hardships he faced as a prisoner, including the brutal conditions of captivity, the deprivation of food and water, the harsh treatment by guards, and the overall psychological and physical toll of being held in a foreign prison camp. The memoir paints a vivid picture of the daily struggles of a POW during World War I, from the intense heat of the Mesopotamian desert to the uncertainty of survival. Bishop also reflects on the camaraderie among the prisoners,...

In the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…Guest editor Marcie Cohen Ferris brings together some of the best new writing on Southern food for the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures , which features an interview with TREME writer Lolis Elie and Ferris’s own retrospective on Southern sociology, the WPA, and Food in the New South. The Food issue includes Rebecca Sharpless on Southern women and rural food supplies, Bernard Herman on Theodore Peed’s Turtle Party...

Southern Cultures Volume 20: Number 1 – Summer 2014Table of ContentsFront Porchby Jocelyn R. Neal“One of the challenges—and, simultaneously, deep pleasures—of studying the South is that the disciplinary walls of the academy neither contain nor constrain the work.”Rewriting ElizabethA Life Lost (and Found) in the Annals of Bryce Mental Hospitalby Lindsay Byron“Her name was never to be spoken. Even upon the lips and within the hearts...

In this special Southern Lives issue:* Billy Carter dresses for all occasions.* Virginia Foster Durr opens her home to recently released inmates.* Michael McFee tours the Billy Graham Library.* Septima Poinsette Clark celebrates fellow Civil Rights pioneers.* Albert Murray goes on the record about Ralph Ellison’s style.* Margaret Walker Alexander reveals her takes on Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker.... and mu...

The Special Roots Music Issue features:B.B. King on Bukka White’s legacy;The Top Ten Folk Singers of All Time;Bob Dylan backstage in ’63 and other rare photographic gems;Swamp bluesman Jimmy Anderson’s first published interview in the U.S.;Lynyrd Skynyrd vs. the Allman Brothers;Pete, Peggy, & Mike — and all the rest that Charles Seeger gave to the world of music;Willie Lowery — musician, songwriting sensation, and humanitarian;

In the Winter 2010 issue of Southern Cultures:Hal Crowther takes on H.L. Mencken (and Rush Limbaugh, too);Southerners battle hornets, rattlesnakes, and bears—so they can pick blackberries;Cowboy Troy crosses country music with hip-hop and says his belt buckle is bling;The experts redraw the boundaries of North and South;The Home of the Double-Headed Eagle rises amidst a line of shotgun shacks;and much more.Southern Cultur...

This Omnibus E-book brings together all four issues of Southern Cultures Volume 15, published in 2009.Volume 15 of Southern Cultures explores Lee’s Tomb, how Southern evangelicals kept sin from sacred spaces, the power of memorials, W.E.B. Du Bois’s unusual connection to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, sundown towns, the African American architect who designed one of the South’s elite institutions during Jim Crow, and both the Mississippi Delta and Core S...

The award-winning full cast audiobook version of 'Moojag and the Auticode Secret', adapted by the author, produced by a neurodivergent team, and voiced by an all autistic, dyslexic, downsyndrome cast, including neurodivergent narrators actor Indica Watson and comedian Ria Lina.If Nema can’t uncover a lost boy’s true identity in time they may never escape the sticky world he designed...When Nema and her friends discover a hidden sugar-hooked society holding lost kids, they f...

THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThis absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels' business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as the economic and entrepreneurial development of Europe in the long 19th century.The name Nobel is mainly associated with the Nobel prize. However, Alfred Nobel was only one of a family of conspicuously gifted individuals....

The Garden is about Carl Linnaeus, a leading figure in the Swedish Enlightenment, famous for his taxonomy — a classification of animals and plants that is still used in modern biology. Linnaeus perceives things through his desire to categorise and therefore in relation to other things. His gardener perceives things for what they are in themselves — and for their beauty or usefulness. They often find themselves in dialogue, but rarely understand each other. We observe Linnaeus alone in thou...

Southern Cultures: The Help Special IssueVolume 20: Number 1 – Spring 2014Table of ContentsFront Porch,by Harry L. Watson“Lauded for her endless gifts and selfless generosity, Mammy is summoned from the kitchen to refute the critics of southern race relations; cruelly circumscribed and taken for granted, she silently confirms them all.”The Divided Reception of The Helpby Suzanne W. JonesThe more one examines the reception ...

In the Summer 2013 issue of Southern Cultures:Dixie Bohemians and Inner Hillbillies. Poutin’ Houses and Moon Pies. The economics of slavery and the integrity of farming. The Wilmington Insurrection and Wednesday morning miracles. The Summer Issue promises more of what Southern Cultures does best: southern lives, real and imagined, re-imagined.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. ...