Chapter 16
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Out of the Mouth of Hell

Peter Carlson recounts a Civil War drama of capture, imprisonment, and escape

…warfare, where friend and foe dressed alike and strangers could disappear if they revealed their political persuasion to the wrong person. Negotiating this physical and political bramble was an odyssey…

Navigating Troubled Waters

Susan Crandall imagines an odd couple on a dangerous road trip through the racially divided South

…Lulu, ran off to Nashville to be a singing star when Starla was only three, and all Mamie cares about is raising her granddaughter to be a lady—unlike her daughter-in-law….

Be Reconciled

Remembering Will D. Campbell, author, preacher, and civil-rights activist

…racial strife. His last official station, beginning in 1965, was to be a cabin-based sinecure with a rag-tag remnant of Southern religious radicals whose interpretation of the biblical good news—“You…

De-Fictionalizing the South

Twenty-five years after the publication of his memoir about Southern politics, journalist James D. Squires talks with Chapter 16 about The Secrets of the Hopewell Box

…chance to be entertained and instructed about a period of local history that had national implications in politics, civil rights, reapportionment, and the sensational federal trial of labor boss Jimmy…

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