Presented by Susan Burns
In 1942 the United States government opened ten concentration camps to house 120,000 Japanese Americans forcibly evicted from their West Coast homes. Retired museum educator Susan Burns explores the history of Heart Mountain, the site in Wyoming where the event occurred.

Presented by Bishop Frank Logue
 Stephen Elliott, the Civil War Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia, epitomized the era’s evolving racial views. Called a progressive for preaching that white slave-holders were accountable for the souls of those they enslaved, Elliott nevertheless revealed white supremacist views in later sermons.

A story like Midnight requires an urban setting, and while there are urban centers greater than Savannah, perhaps no other southern city could have been the incubator of such a tale.

Gothic literature has always served primarily as protest literature, and the lament of African-American prose yearns for and claims the power of the gothic. 

The wide river whose navigation gave Samuel Clemens his penname also serves as the mighty force looming behind his greatest fiction.

Devoutly Catholic O’Connor observed the “do-it-yourself ” religion of her native Georgia and appropriated its tropes and characters to convey the grace of her orthodox belief.

Perhaps no southern writer other than Faulkner has the sheer force of will to wrest a whole world out of the soil of Mississippi.

When not trumpeting jazz or piping the aromas of Creole cuisine, the Big Easy and its denizens are busy writing unforgettable literature.