New Southern Culture Encyclopedia first volumes coming soon
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — What do NASCAR, Vidalia onions and beauty parlors have in common?
They're all rooted in the South and documented in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
The encyclopedia is a published by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
Four of its planned 24 volumes are to be released September 18th.
Officials say the New Encyclopedia explores the region's metamorphosis over the past 17 years and updates the encyclopedia's inaugural issue published in 1989. [...]