Tag: American South

  • Nation & World

    Back to Birmingham

    Historian Diane McWhorter, a Harvard fellow, finds a surprising nexus between the racial segregation of Birmingham, Ala., in the early 1960s and some of the attitudes of the Third Reich.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    On the page, life after prison

    Author Tayari Jones, a Radcliffe fellow, is at work on her fourth novel, set in the American South. “Dear History” explores how a family comes to terms with a wrongful conviction.

    5 minutes