The US South and the 2008 Election

Joseph Crespino examines the concept of the Sunbelt in the 2008 Presidential Election

Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination

Mississippi emerged as an iconic space for the struggle over the meaning of democracy and equality in the South and in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. Examining three metaphors widely used in those years, Professor Joseph Crespino argues that, as "the South on steroids," Mississippi became as much a contentious, imagined space as a real location for addressing national problems of white racism. The Mississippi of metaphor continues to affect, and to limit, how the South and the nation pursue social reform and equality

The Scarred Stone: The Strom Thurmond Monument

Joseph Crespino analyzes the addition of Strom Thurmond's African American daughter's name to his South Carolina State House statue

Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown

Historian Joseph Crespino interviews Decatur, Georgia-based historical novelist, Thomas Mullen, author of Darktown (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), The Revisionists (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011), The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (New York: Random House, 2010), and The Last Town on Earth (New York: Random House, 2006)