Tag: Mississippi


Ole Miss Associate Professor Jesse Cromwell to Speak on Smuggling & 18th Century Venezuela and the Atlantic World

University of Mississippi Associate Professor Jesse Cromwell will speak on “The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and the Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela,” on October 22, 2019, at 4:30 PM, in 251 ten Hoor. From Dr. Cromwell’s faculty profile: “Jesse Cromwell is Associate Professor of Colonial Latin American history.  His research focuses on the imperial and Atlantic histories of Spanish colonialism in the eighteenth-century circum-Caribbean with a special emphasis on how the Bourbon Reforms affected the transimperial interactions, commerce, and mobility […]

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History Professor and her Students Capture Black Migration Through Sound and Images

Far too often, when folks think of black migration from the South before and after the Second World War, they think of people moving north or west. Sharony Green, Assistant Professor of History, is conducting research that captures the movement of African American farther South to Florida, specifically to Miami. Her work is being made accessible to a broad audience via a digital art installation 6-7:30 pm, Monday, August, 29, 2016 at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro […]

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