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This was a discussion about the racially motivated 1919 Elaine, Arkansas massacre. Panelists contributed to the book, The Elaine Massacre and Arkansas: A Century of Atrocity and Resistance, …

Historians who edited or wrote essays for the book Reinterpreting Southern Histories talked about new avenues for approaching and understanding the history of the South. Topics discussed inc…

At the annual Southern Historical Association meeting, a group of professors discussed challenges and strategies for teaching the Reconstruction Era. They talked about sources and trying to …

Shauna Devine talked about her book Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science, in which she examines the Civil War’s impact on medicine. In the book, …

Juanita Jones Abernathy recounted her experiences during the Civil Rights Movement and reflected on the experience of many other women civil rights activists, who she believes were often ove…

Theda Perdue talked about the legacy of Jim Crow and it’s impact on Native Americans in the South. Topics included the legacy of Indian removal and Native American attitudes toward the civil…

Rosayln Terborg-Penn, Sharon Harley, and Crystal Feimster talked about the book to which they contributed, Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (The University of Nor…

James Cobb, Chairman of the History Department at the University of Georgia and author, gives an address entitled “On the Pinnacle in Yankee Land: C. Vann Woodward as a Southern Renaissance …