Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures

Daughters of Time

Creating Woman's Voice in Southern Story

Power of the Porch

The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan

Teaching Equality

Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow

George Washington and the American Military Tradition

Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity

Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers

Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music

Mixed Blood Indians

Racial Construction in the Early South

Hammers of Creation

Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction

Remapping Southern Literature

Contemporary Southern Writers and the West

Language of the American South

South and the North in American Religion

Possum and Other Receipts for the Recovery of "Southern" Being

Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery

The Anglo-American Context, 1830-1860

Consuming Fire

The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South

Three Modes of Modern Southern Fiction

Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe

Waking Their Neighbors Up

The Nashville Agrarians Rediscovered

Edgar Allan Poe As Literary Critic

Remembering Medgar Evers

Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement

Remembering Medgar Evers

Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement

Myths and Men

Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson

Camille, 1969

Histories of a Hurricane

Southern Writers in the Modern World

Becoming Confederates

Paths to a New National Loyalty

Becoming Confederates

Paths to a New National Loyalty

Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South

Weaving Alliances with Other Women

Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South

Teaching Equality

Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow

Blind No More

African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War

Hidden in Plain Sight

Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris