Rebecca Sharpless

Grain and Fire

A History of Baking in the American South

"While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of Southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complic...

Shackled

92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air

A rare look at the brute-force mechanics of deportation in the United States. In December 2017, U.S. immigration authorities shackled and abused 92 Af...

Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens, Enhanced Ebook

Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960

As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the prima...

The Human Tradition in the New South

In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, ec...

Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens

Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960

Studie over zwarte vrouwen in het zuiden van de Verenigde Staten die na het einde van de slavernij in de 19e eeuw huishoudelijk werk gingen doen bij b...

"She Ought to Have Taken Those Cakes": Southern Women and Rural Food Supplies

An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food

In April 1930, five hundred potential customers showed up at the opening of Staunton's curb market, and in 1936, the market's most successful vendor, ...

Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices

Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940

Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960. On the cotton farms of Centra...