American South

Regional totals of confirmed cases across the country range from around 144,300 to over 668,000, as of Wednesday.

What I won't forget about Elton John's "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" show was just how utterly connected this British rock star was—and still is—to the American South.

The report found that only 44 percent of white southerners think that they have more opportunities to get ahead economically than their black and Latino peers.

The swarm of wasps sounded like a hailstorm.

While the HIV epidemic in the U.S. has slowed, it remains a serious problem in many African-American communities in the southern states.

Essayist's new volume collects slivers of stories from America's past: a trip across the South in 1970 and the Patty Hearst trial.

Thunderstorms and tornadoes threaten Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina.

As much as 8 inches of snow and 1 inch of sleet was expected to fall on a large swath of the United States from northeast Louisiana to southern Pennsylvania.

As the PBS film celebrates its 25th anniversary, how does America look back at the Confederacy?

As North/South reconciliation proves elusive, these are tough times for lost-cause iconography.

A new report discovers 700 more lynching deaths from 1877 to 1950.

Last month I set off with my father to drive from his home in Indiana down to Oxford, Mississippi, where the great writer William Faulkner had lived. I had been reading Faulkner for more than a decade in the remoteness of Asia, but I had never been to the South and had no idea what it looked like.