Southern Exposure is an award-winning print journal and magazine published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation and won several awards, including a National Magazine Award and two George Polk Awards, for its writing and investigative reporting on a broad range of political, economic, and cultural issues in the South.

Vol. 18 No. 1 - Spring 1990
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Magazine cover with reenactor holding Confederate battle flag, reading "The War Within"

The War Within

  • Dateline: The South

    Compiled by John James

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  • Southern News Roundup

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  • Headed for a Crash

    Guess who's paying for the insurance industry's $2.5 billion blowout. An SE special report. By Marty Leary.

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  • Poor Man's Fight

    Contrary to popular myth, many Southern whites took up arms against the Confederacy. By Michael W. Fitzgerald.

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  • An Uncivil War

    Secession launched a community rebellion that divided the plantations among poor men. By Wayne Durrill.

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  • A Thousand Aspirations

    Black Southerners who escaped to the Carolina coast forged new communities and fought for freedom. By David Cecelski.

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  • Picturing Freedom

    White images of blacks helped shaped public opinion in the era of Emancipation. By Karen C. C. Dalton

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  • "Who Wrote the History?"

    John Hope Franklin teaches the kind of Civil War history we never learned in school. Interview by Eric Bates.

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  • Look Away

    Why are Southerners still fighting over the Confederate flag? By Eric Bates.

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  • "A Big, Big Day"

    Wincehster still celebrates Confederate Memorial Day, but residents disagree about what it means. By Tim Thornton.

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  • A Concrete Symbol

    How wealthy whites in New Orleans rewrote history to suit their political needs. By Lawrence Powell.

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  • Fiction: The Palm Writer

    By Susan Hankla

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  • The Green Scorecard

    A state-by-state ranking of the South's environment. By Bob Hall.

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  • Good-Bye, Good Hope

    An entire Louisiana community vanished, thanks to environmental policies that put industry over people. By Zack Nauth.

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  • "The Greed in These Woods"

    The Army wants it. Developers want it. But Mississippi citizens say they can't have it. By Alan Huffman.

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  • Toxic Tremors

    Hazardous waste has turned South Carolina residents into movers and shakers. By Sandy Smith.

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  • The Last Word

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