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Religion for the blues: evangelicalism, poor whites, and the great depression

MAY JORDAN LIVED A HARD LIFE. BEFORE HER DEATH IN OCTOBER 1914 at age twenty-five, she spent most of her time helping her father and family survive...
Journal of Southern History, 02/01/05 by Wayne Flynt · More from publication
Faith, Grace, and Heresy: the Biography of Rev. Charles M. Jones

By Mark Pryor. (Lincoln, Neb., and other cities: Writer's Showcase, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 398. $20.95, ISBN 0-595-21718-4.) By Mark Pryor. (Lincoln,...
Journal of Southern History, 11/01/03 by Wayne Flynt · More from publication
Religion in Mississippi

By Randy J. Sparks. Heritage of Mississippi Series, Volume II. (Jackson: Published by the University Press of Mississippi for the Mississippi...
Journal of Southern History, 02/01/03 by Wayne Flynt · More from publication
Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s

Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. By Pete Daniel. (Chapel Hill and London: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the...
Journal of Southern History, 11/01/01 by Wayne Flynt · More from publication
Alabama Baptists and the Second World War

As the half-century remembrances of the Second World War fade into memory, Americans finally fully appreciate the accomplishments of what some now...
Baptist History and Heritage, 06/22/01 by Wayne Flynt · More from publication
Photographic legacies

Most people leave legacies to their descendants. Some are substantial. Usually they are modest. My maternal grandparents had little financial...
Southern Living, 05/01/00 by Flynt, Wayne · More from publication

Judgment & Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis. (book reviews)

Judgment & Grace in Dixie Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis By Charles Reagan Wilson University of Georgia Press, 1995 202 pp. Cloth,...
Southern Cultures, 09/22/98 by Flynt, Wayne · More from publication
Rural poverty in America

Visual images help us understand complex realities. Think of poverty in America like this: You are staring down on a huge moonscape cratered by...
National Forum, 07/01/96 by Flynt, Wayne · More from publication
The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama

I may have read a better history than Culpepper Clark's The Schoolhouse Door during the past decade, but if so I don't remember it. Here is the...
Mississippi Quarterly, The, 09/22/94 by Wayne Flynt · More from publication