Best American South

Edward P. Jones 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores a little-known aspect of American history: Black slaveholders in antebellum Virginia. Through the story of Henry Townsend, a former slave who...

The Silent Orchard by Maeve Callahan chronicles a multigenerational familys struggle to maintain a peach orchard in rural Georgia. Callahans memoir is a poignant exploration of rural life, family dyna...

'Mudbound' is a powerful and emotionally resonant film set in rural Mississippi during and after World War II. It explores the experiences of two sharecropping families, one Black and one white, as th...

Scott Alexanders 'Chain-Gang: Forged in Fire' presents a chilling alternate history where the Confederacy won the Civil War and slavery persisted into the 21st century. The novel explores themes of op...

Robert Zemeckis heartwarming film follows the life of a simple-minded man who unwittingly finds himself at the center of some of the most significant events in American history. Tom Hanks delivers a m...

Isabel Wilkerson's 'The Warmth of Other Suns' chronicles the decades-long migration of African Americans from the Jim Crow South to the North and West. The book weaves together the stories of three in...

William Eggleston is the father of modern color photography. By treating the mundane, everyday objects of the American South with the same artistic weight as traditional fine art subjects, he revoluti...

Edward P. Jones 'The Known World,' the 2006 National Book Award winner, is a sprawling and ambitious novel set in antebellum Virginia, exploring the complexities of slavery through the story of a blac...

Sue Monk Kidds 'The Invention of Wings,' the 2012 National Book Award finalist, is a richly detailed and emotionally resonant novel inspired by the life of Sarah Grimké, an abolitionist and womens rig...