Southern Cultures Presents: Memory

"Southern Cultures has just released a special issue devoted entirely to
Memory. We've also updated our online archives in many subject areas and
are again offering free CDs and DVDs for use in classrooms during the coming
academic year."

The Memory issue features:
--Peter S. Carmichael on why Robert E. Lee provokes so much argument;
--Alice Walker, Randall Kenan, Allan Gurganus, Joe Flora, Elizabeth Spencer,
Godfrey Cheshire, Kenneth Turan, and Andrew Garrison on their favorite
Southern films;
--what to do about the Thomas Ruffin statue;
--memories of World War II Appalachia;
--new poetry from Robert Morgan;
--baseball legend Catfish Hunter and his hometown remembered;
--an interview with the Grandmother of Appalachian Studies;
--scenes from wartime Hot Springs, Arkansas;

--and more.

50,000 students and scholars from over 70 countries have read Southern
Cultures in the past year, and all of our content from the last decade is
available online by subject area and by issue at:
http://www.southerncultures.org/content/read/

To read the current issue on Memory or to read about our free media for
classroom use, please visit:

www.SouthernCultures.org

http://www.SouthernCultures.org

Dave Shaw