Tag: Kari Frederickson


Dr. Kari Frederickson’s Deep South Dynasty Wins Michael V.R. Thomason Award

Dr. Kari Frederickson’s recent publication, Deep South Dynasty: The Bankheads of Alabama (University of Alabama Press, 2022), was named the winner of the 2022 Michael V. R. Thomason Award for the Best Book in the History of the Gulf South by the Gulf South Historical Association. The award committee praised the book as “a gripping study of the New South that deftly weaves the political, economic, and cultural story of the region with the personal triumphs and travails of its […]

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Voices of the Enslaved Wins 2022 Summersell Deep South Book Prize

The Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South and the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at The University of Alabama are proud to announce the winner of the Sixth Biennial Summersell Deep South Book Prize for the best book on the history of the American South: Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (UNC, 2019) by Sophie White, Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Voices of the […]

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Dr. Kari Frederickson to Discuss Deep South Dynasty, Autograph Copies January 22

Tuscaloosa’s Ernest & Hadley Booksellers, will host a book signing and discussion with Dr. Kari Frederickson this coming Saturday, January 22, 2022, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. The event will be held at the Ernest & Hadley’s store, located at 1928 7th Street, in downtown Tuscaloosa. Frederickson will discuss her newest book, Deep South Dynasty: The Bankheads of Alabama, which chronicles the story of one of Alabama’s most powerful and influential political families. Deep South Dynasty traces the careers […]

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Sisters and Rebels Named Winner of the 2020 Summersell Prize

The Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South and the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at The University of Alabama are proud to announce the winner of the 2020 Summersell Prize for the best book on the history of the American South: Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America (W.W. Norton, 2019) by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. Sisters and Rebels is a masterful study of the three “estranged yet forever entangled” Lumpkin sisters […]

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Department Attends SHA Convention, Holds Reception Honoring George Rable.

  The Department of History hosted a reception honoring Dr. George C. Rable at the 2017 Southern Historical Association Convention in Dallas, Texas. Rable, the longtime Summersell Chair of Southern History in the department, retired last year. Colleagues, former graduate students, and friends gathered to congratulate Rable on his well-deserved retirement. At the reception, Megan Bever and Laura Mammina announced that a collection of essays honoring Rable is in the works with LSU Press. The collection, edited by Bever, Mammina, […]

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Alumnus Matthew Downs Inspires Students at the University of Mobile

Department alumnus Matthew L. Downs is carrying on the University’s tradition of teaching excellence and leadership at the University of Mobile, where he is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Downs graduated from the University with his Ph.D. in History in 2010, after completing his Masters in 2004. Working with Dr. Kari Frederickson, he studied US and southern history, specifically focusing on the modernization of the South in the mid-twentieth century. Downs […]

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