Tag: Bankhead

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

January 19, 2022

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 […]

Graduate History Association Hosts Power & Struggle Conference

September 12, 2018

The University of Alabama Graduate History Association will host its annual Power and Struggle Conference on October 5 and 6, 2018. This year’s keynote speaker is former Bankhead Fellow and current The Ohio State University Associate Professor of History Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt (2009). Jeffries will speak at 7:00 pm, Friday, October 5, 2018, at Smith Hall on The University of Alabama campus. The Charles G. Summersell Memorial […]

Dr. Sarah Pearsall – Violence and Polygamy in Early America

March 8, 2018

The Department of History is hosting a talk by Dr. Sarah Pearsall, University Senior Lecturer in the History of Early America and the Atlantic World at Cambridge University, on “Violence and Polygamy in Early America.” The lecture will take place on Monday, March 26, from 4:30-6 PM in 30 ten Hoor Hall. This event is sponsored by the Department of History, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, the Diversity Committee of the College of Arts & Sciences, and […]