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The essay moves around all dominant gender agreements to find the efforts of seventies-era southern feminists to make a lesbian print culture. It says that lesbian-feminist books, shorter chapbooks, journals, periodicals, newspapers, posters, and broadsides were marketed across the U.S. via social networks, community organizations, and business during the 1970s and 1980s to invite public consciousness and make materials for a lesbian-feminist change.

The article discusses the relationship between moon pies and the culture of the U.S. Southern States, offering several personal accounts of Southerners' early memories of eating moon pies. Topics, including the incorporation of the subject of moon pie addiction into literature, purchasing moon pies at country stores, the inventor of moon pies Ed Mitchell Jr.'s memory of coal miners' desire for moon pies to be a larger size and the Chattanooga Bakery employee Earl Mitchell's invention of moon pies in 1919, are discussed.

The article discusses the prospects for the continuation of African American slavery in the U.S. Southern States had the American Civil War not occurred, with a particular focus on the role that slavery played in the Southern economy. An overview of the American South's regional differences, including in regard to the profitability of slaveholders throughout various regions, is provided. The relationship between cotton and slavery, including U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's estimation during the 1860s that the invention of the cotton gin would allow slavery to continue for a century, is discussed.

The essay discusses the influence of Hawaiian music on early American blues guitarists, focusing on the Hawaiian origins of the slide guitar style. Topics discussed include Hawaiian steel guitarist Joseph Kekuku‘upenakana‘iaupuniokamehameha Apuakehau; the popularity of Hawaiian music in the southern United States; and the music of various guitarists such as Sylvester Weaver, Pale K. Lua, and Lonnie Johnson.

An essay is presented which discusses rural U.S. Southern women's selling of food to grocers in urban areas and urban women's purchasing of their food throughout the U.S. South during the first half of the 20th century. Southern women's desire for their food supply to come from local farms is discussed.

An essay is presented which discusses social scientists' perspective on U.S. Southerners' diet and cooking from the 1920s through to the 1940s. An overview of the New Deal's documentary projects, including the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) State Guides, is provided. The role that the photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange played in documenting Southern food culture is discussed.

The article discusses race, class and the schools of the U.S South states during the Antebellum period. Particular focus is given to the University of North Carolina president Rev. Joseph Caldwell's campaign for railroad development and public education. North Carolina Superintendent of Common Schools Calvin Henderson Wiley's ambivalent views on racial and social inequality, including the disparity between his private convictions and his political actions, are presented. Perspectives on U.S. primary education and the inclusion of blacks within it are also presented.

The essay focuses on villages along the northern rim of the Gulf Coast in 1941. The villages were sustained through fishing and tourism. Visitors frequented the night clubs and more visitors from mostly Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia came after World War II. The essay also discusses the local residents' interaction with the tourists.