Southern History, Culture and Travel

Southern History

Explorers & Colonies

• Carolina Colony Founded
• The Casket Girls of New Orleans
• James Edward Oglethorpe and the Founding of Georgia
• Jamestown Founded
• Ponce de Leon Explores Florida
• Roanoke Colony (The Lost Colony)

Founders & Revolutionary War

• Thomas Jefferson on “Wall of separation between church and state”
• Thomas Paine
• U.S. Navy Created

Antebellum South 1820-1855

• Compromise of 1850
• Cotton Gin Invented
• Louisiana Code Noir
• The Missouri Compromise
• Sojourner Truth’s Northern Speaking Tour
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published – 1852
• Underground Railroad

Secession and the Civil War

• “Dixie” by Daniel Decatur Emmett (1859)
• Vice President of the Confederacy Cornerstone Speech

Civil War Battles and Reactions

• Fall of Fort Sumter and Reaction

The Lost Cause Myth

• Origin and Tenets of the Lost Cause Myth

Reconstruction

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

Civil Rights

• Bloody Sunday
• Greensboro Four

Films & TV Set In The American South

New Orleans, Louisiana

• American Horror Story: Coven (2013-2014) – TV
• The Originals (2013-2018) – TV
• Treme (2010-2013) – TV

Southern Travel

Alabama

• Black Belt of Alabama

Florida

• What and Where is Florida’s First Coast?

Georgia

• Savannah’s Forsyth Park Fountain

Virginia

• Arlington House
• Photo Essay: Colonial Williamsburg Houses
• George Washington’s Mount Vernon
  • Mount Vernon: 16 Sided Barn
  • Mount Vernon: Distillery
  • Mount Vernon: Gristmill
  • Mount Vernon: The Mansion
    • Mount Vernon: Mansion Circle
    • Mount Vernon: Dining Room
    • Mount Vernon: Front Parlor
    • Mount Vernon: Little Parlor
    • Mount Vernon: Kitchen
    • Mount Vernon: Piazza
    • Mount Vernon: Study

Culinary Travel – United States Southern

• 13 Gypsies – Jacksonville, Florida
• Dockside Seafood Restaurant – Jacksonville Beach, Florida
• Edna Lewis on Coffee
• Husk – Charleston, South Carolina
• La Cuisine Creole by Lacadio Hearn
• Leah Chase
• Palm Valley Fish Camp: An Afternoon Lunch (Ponte Vedra, Florida)
• Photo Essay : Palm Valley Fish Camp & Marker 32 (Jacksonville Beach, FL)
• Stephenson’s Apple Farm: Family Influence
• The Grey – Savannah, Georgia
• The Olde Pink House – Savannah, Georgia
• Turkey and the Wolf – New Orleans, Louisiana

Culinary Travel – United States Non-Southern

• A few bites at Jaleo (Washington D.C.)
• A Morning at Wagshal’s Market – Washington D.C.
• Bistro Provence (Bethesda, MD)
• Gertrude Stein on Coffee
• Storm Castle Cafe – Bozeman, Montana
• Storm Castle Cafe Cowboy Bistro Pop-Up Dinner (Bozeman, MT)