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New Issue: JSH August 2020

Today's post is by Andrew W. Sanders, Southern Historical Association Editorial Intern and graduate student in history at Rice University.

Even as the pandemic continues on, the editors of the Journal of Southern History announce the publication of the August 2020 issue. The issue has been mailed to SHA members and is available digitally through our partnership with Project MUSE.

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JSH Manuscript Development Workshop 2020

On July 30–31, 2020, the editors of the Journal of Southern History held the first-ever JSH Manuscript Development Workshop, on the theme “Immigration and Migration in the American South.” Eight scholars were invited to present their precirculated works-in-progress. Although we missed the opportunity to host these scholars at the Rice University campus as was originally intended, the virtual discussion was lively and productive. The editors thank these scholars for sharing their work:

    • Jessica Fletcher, Vanderbilt University, “Litigating Borderlands: The Transatlantic Illegal Slave Trade, the Spanish Empire, and Law in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South”
    • Stefanie Greenhill, University of Kentucky, “The Civil War Refugee Crisis and the Lasting Effects of the Civil War on Migration in the Postwar South”
    • Alisha Hines, Wake Forest University, “‘To Make Her Own Bargains with Boats’: Gender, Labor, and Freedom in the Western Steamboat World”
    • Brianna Nofil, College of William & Mary, “The Political Economy of ‘Undeportables’: Mariel Cubans in Louisiana Jails, 1987–1994”
    • Yuridia Ramírez, University of Illinois, “Farmworker Labor Politics and the Rearticulation of Racialized Hierarchies: Mexican Migrants in Late-Twentieth-Century North Carolina”
    • Michael Menor Salgarolo, New York University, “‘A Strange Settlement of Malay Fishermen’: Constructing Race and Gender at St. Maló, Louisiana, 1859–1883”\
    • Austin Stewart, Lehigh University, “The Other Cherokee Removal: Property Rights, Identity, and the Rise of Anglo Settler Sovereignty in Texas, 1820–1840”
    • Catherine Stout, Miss Porter’s School, “‘The Undesirable Southern Negro’: The Displacement of African American Migrant Workers during World War II”

Thanks also to JSH Editorial Board members Pippa Holloway and Amy Louise Wood and to former JSH editors John B. Boles and Evelyn Thomas Nolen for their participation and for sharing their expertise. The workshop was organized to recognize the sixtieth anniversary of Rice University’s sponsorship of the Journal of Southern History.

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Quarantining in Kentucky: Escaping COVID-19 and Connecting with the Civil War-Era through the Civil War Governors of Kentucky

This post appears in the SHA Grad Council's new series about research, teaching, and living under the shadow of the pandemic.

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Perceiving Culture in COVID-19

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INSTHIS 101: Becoming the Source, it takes one to know one! Instant History on Instagram

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On Grief and Black-Eyed Peas

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Pandemics, Parenting, and the Historian’s Craft

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Conducting Oral Histories Amid the COVID Pandemic in Louisiana

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Lessons in Online Learning

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Admitted: Spring 2020

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Coronavirus Chronicles

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Historical Baking

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FAQs

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Traversing a New World

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Continuity, Change, and Cohorts during COVID

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Expected Graduation Date May 2020

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An Accessible Academy in COVID-19

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Memes and Mimosas: Defending During COVID-19

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The Color of Covid: The Underlying Conditions of “Underlying Conditions”

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped our personal and professional lives in ways few of us imagined mere months ago. We now work remotely as university instruction has gone online and travel has been indefinitely postponed. Graduate students, too, have been impacted by these unprecedented global events—degree milestones are conducted online, archival and library access is curtailed, and networking events are limited to the virtual realm.

In response to COVID-19, the Southern Historical Association's Graduate Student Council is launching a new series of blog posts about research, teaching, and living under the shadow of the pandemic. Graduate school can be lonely and isolating under the best of circumstances and, for many, the pandemic has exacerbated these feelings. While we are sheltering in place, this new blog series provides a forum for graduate students to discuss a diverse array of personal and professional experiences, reminding us that we are not alone and our community endures.

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New issue: JSH May 2020

Today’s post is by Nina D. Nevill, Southern Historical Association Editorial Intern and graduate student in history at Rice University.

The editorial staff of the Journal of Southern History is pleased to announce the publication, in print and digitally, of the May 2020 issue.

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