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Lesley Gordon Appears on C-SPAN to Discuss George Pickett

Professor Lesley Gordon, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, spoke at Pamplin Historical Park, in Petersburg, Virginia, several months ago. She discussed Confederate General George Pickett and his third wife, LaSalle Corbell Pickett, whose extensive writing about her late husband shaped his historical legacy in significant ways. Gordon is the author of George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (The University of North Carolina Press, 1998).

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Department Hosts Friends & Alumni at SHA-Birmingham

The Department of History was happy to host a Department Friends & Alumni Meet-Up for all attendees at the 2019 Southern Historical Association Conference in Birmingham this November. Current professors and graduate students were able to mingle with alumni, former and emeritus faculty, and other friends of the department. The event was sponsored by the the Summersell Chair of Southern History Endowment Fund. The Summersell Center for the Study of the South also sponsored membership and housing for four undergraduate students – Margaret […]

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Amy Murrell Taylor Visits Campus

The History Department was pleased to host Amy Murrell Taylor in November to give a talk on her new book, Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps. In her book, Taylor discusses the meaning wrapped up in the physical design and structure of the camps where former enslaved persons fleeing the Confederacy were housed. When these spaces disappeared when the war ended, it left a major mark on the African-American community as they sought equality and agency. […]

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Students and Faculty Attend BrANCH Conference in Cambridge, England

The British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) held its annual conference at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, October 5-7, 2018. Professors and graduate students interested in all aspects of U.S. History from the period gathered together at Madingley Hall for a weekend of panels, lectures and lively conversations, showcasing the latest research on Nineteenth Century United States history. Four members of UA’s history department attended and participated in the conference. These included PhD student Dawn Wiley who shared her research in […]

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US Army Chief of Military History & Chair of War Studies Department at USMC Command Staff College Visit Department

On March 29, The University of Alabama Department of History hosted a pair of events lead by two military historians. Executive Director of the US Army Center of Military History and Chief of History, Charles R. Bowery, Jr., and Professor of Military History and Department Head of the War Studies Department at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Dr. Christopher Stowe. Bowery and Stowe gave joint presentations to faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students, discussing the Civil War and its […]

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Dr. Victoria Bynum Visits UA

The History Department was honored to host noted Civil War historian, Dr. Victoria Bynum, for a pair of departmental events this March. The Department hosted a screening of the 2016 film The Free State of Jones, based on her 2001 work The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War. Following the screening was a Q&A discussion with Dr. Bynum, as she examined the film’s strengths and weaknesses as an adaptation of her research, as well as provided more information […]

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Thank You for Supporting “1867 in North America: Crisis on a Continent.”

On November 1 2017, the History Department hosted “1867 in North America: Crisis on a Continent.” Drs. Steven Bunker, Lesley J. Gordon, and Harold Selesky participated in this discussion of the sesquicentennial of the threefold political crisis that affected the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Dr. Gordon discussed issues surrounding Reconstruction, Dr. Selesky spoke about the confederation of Canada, and Dr. Bunker talked on the fall of the Second Empire of Mexico. The event drew parallels between trends in all […]

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Dr. Andrew Paxman to Speak on “A Southerner South of the Border: How William Jenkins Became Mexico’s Richest Industrialist,” Wednesday, Oct. 18, at 4 PM in the Summersell Room

Dr. Andrew Paxman, research professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico, will speak at 4 pm, Wednesday, October 18, at 4 pm, in the Summersell Room. Paxman’s talk is entitled “A Southerner South of the Border: How William Jenkins Became Mexico’s Richest Industrialist,” and is based upon his new book, Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate (OUP 2017). Paxman’s book traces the life of Jenkins from his Tennessee roots to his […]

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Holly Pinheiro, Jr. to Speak on Race, Gender, and Citizenship During the Civil War Era on Tuesday, Oct. 17

University of Iowa doctoral candidate and current Alabama A&M University faculty member Holly Pinheiro, Jr., will deliver a talk entitled, “Men of Color! To Arms!: Race, Gender, and Citizenship During the Civil War Era,” on Tuesday, October 17, at Noon, in room 251 ten Hoor Hall (the Summersell Room). Pinheiro’s research examines the lives of fifty northern black soldiers and their families before, during, and after the Civil War. Those wishing to attend should send an RSVP to Dawn Wiley […]

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Professor Matthew Karp Discusses Slaveholders and Foreign Policy

On September 20th, Dr. Matthew Karp of Princeton University delivered a lecture in ten Hoor Hall, entitled “Slave Power: How Southern Slaveholders Mastered U.S. Foreign Policy.” In addition to providing an overview of his book, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy, Karp discussed how slaveholders in the Antebellum South viewed themselves and their domestic and foreign policy interests. Karp highlighted the anachronisms that frequently color our understanding of the South and Southerners leading up […]

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Department Hosts Panel on the American Civil War Online and in the Public Sphere

On September 14, 2017, the Department of History was proud to host “The American Civil War Online and in the Public Sphere,” a panel with Susannah J. Ural of the University of Southern Mississippi, Judith Giesberg of Villanova University, and Anne Rubin of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Each presenter spoke about their respective backgrounds in Civil War digital humanities projects. Dr. Ural documented her work with the Beauvoir Soldiers’ Home, a former Confederate veterans’ home in Biloxi, MS, on […]

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The American Civil War Online and in the Public Sphere: A Panel Discussion to be held September 14

Three prominent Civil War Historians are coming to the UA campus to discuss their experiences with using digital projects in the classroom and in their research. They will also address the ways in which the Civil War has gained relevance in today’s current political climate. The panel discussion will be held in room 30, ten Hoor Hall, from 5 – 6:30 pm, on Thursday, September 14. Susannah J. Ural is co-director of the Dale Center for the Study of War […]

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Princeton University Prof Matthew Karp to Speak on “Slave Power: How Southern Slaveholders Mastered U.S. Foreign Policy” and Sign Books, Sept 20

Princeton University Assistant Professor Matthew Karp will present a talk entitled “Slave Power: How Southern Slaveholders Mastered U.S. Foreign Policy” on Wednesday, September 20, 2017, from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm, in 30 ten Hoor Hall. Karp is the author of This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy, which was published by Harvard University Press and received the 2017 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for the best initial book in the field of U.S. foreign relations from the Society […]

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The Department of History is Pleased to Welcome Dr. Lesley J. Gordon, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, to the department.

Dr. Lesley J. Gordon is the new Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at The University of Alabama, filling the position once held by Dr. George C. Rable, who retired at the end of the 2015-16 school year. Dr. Gordon is from Connecticut, originally, but has spent thirteen years in the South; she attended the College of William and Mary for her undergraduate degree and the University of Georgia for her Ph.D.; her first teaching position was at Murray […]

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