Jon Meacham

Arts & Culture
In Memoriam: Julia Evans Reed, 1960–2020
A tribute to the long-time Garden & Gun columnist and contributing editor, who died on Friday

Special Issue
Making a Southern Stand
The best of the most distinctive region in the country could be vanishing before our eyes

Traditions
Mountain Time
Returning to school in the summer is unthinkable—anywhere, that is, but Sewanee

Arts & Culture
Southern Exposure: Hitting the Road with Jack Spencer
Eighty thousand miles with the legendary photographer

Celebrate the South
Jon Meacham on a Sewanee Tradition
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author reflects on the Festival of Lessons and Carols, a stirring Advent celebration

Arts & Culture
A Texas Education
In the summer of 1948, George H. W. Bush loaded his car in distant Connecticut and headed to the Lone Star State, a move that would shape the man and launch the future president’s political career

The G&G Interview
G&G Interview: Congressman John Lewis
More than fifty years after his pivotal role in the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, Georgia congressman and civil-rights icon John Lewis marches on

Good Dog
A Puppy and a Patch of Grass
A springer and a family find a home in Tennessee

Books
Shelby Foote’s War Story
How a Memphis novelist’s history of the Civil War made history itself