More than fifty years after Faulkner’s death, Rowan Oak remains a sanctuary and a place of mystery and beauty nestled in the midst of Oxford, Mississippi. The photographs in The Land of Rowan Oak are botanist Ed Croom’s exploration and documentation of the changes in the plants and landscape over more than a decade. Croom …
Byron D’Andra Orey, Professor of Political Science at Jackson State University, will present a Brown Bag lecture on Wednesday, April 12 at noon in Barnard Observatory. Dr. Orey’s talk will be “Does the Confederate Flag Make You Sick?” Recently, a plaintiff filed a federal court case alleging that seeing the Confederate flag caused him harm. …
Eva Walton Kendrick “Lobbying the Heart of Dixie: LGBTQ Advocacy in the Alabama State House” As we look ahead to a Trump administration, achieving state nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ Alabamians is more critical than ever. Eva Kendrick will discuss the realities she and her staff have faced and lessons learned in their work to achieve …
Due to weather-related travel issues for the speaker, this event has been canceled. “Writing Histories of Environmentalism in the US South” Building on histories of environmental activism in the southern US, Ellen Griffith Spears’s talk explores the challenges facing American environmentalism in 2017. Spears is an associate professor in the interdisciplinary New College and …
Carter Dalton Lyon presents “Sanctuaries of Segregation: The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign.” In 2010, Lyon completed his PhD dissertation, “Lifting the Color Bar from the House of God: The 1963-1964 Church Visit Campaign to Challenge Segregated Sanctuaries in Jackson, Mississippi,” which examines a civil rights campaign by students and faculty at Tougaloo …
Sara Wood, Oral Historian for the Southern Foodways Alliance, will give a talk on the Foodways of Mississippi as part of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s History is Lunch Series. Her talk will be at noon on Wednesday, March 15, in the William Winter Archives Building.
Ben DuPriest is a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, he earned an MA in historical musicology from the University of Georgia in Athens, where he lived, trained, and worked as a drummer and line cook. His work examines the entanglement of musical pasts and presents in the …
“William Johnson, Diarist: Concepts of Race and Class in Our Understanding of Old Natchez” The series of personal journals maintained between 1835 and 1851 by Natchez barber William Johnson, a free man of color, provide valuable and fascinating insights into the complex world of a prosperous Mississippi river town in the years before the Civil …
In this presentation, Dr. Mary Battle describes challenges and opportunities for promoting public awareness of the history of slavery and its race and class legacies in Charleston, South Carolina. Battle’s research focuses on underrepresented histories in Charleston’s twenty-first century historic tourism landscape. Until January 2017, she worked as the Public Historian at the College of …