Fall 2009--Save the Dates!

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Tues., Sept. 9
David Brown,
Lecturer in American Studies
University of Manchester
“Breaking the Color Line: Changing Interpretations of Slave-Poor White Relations in the Old South”

Tues., Sept. 23
Suzanne Marrs
Stewart Family Professor of Language and Literature
Millsaps College
Professor Marrs will look at Eudora Welty's openness to experience

Fri., Oct. 3
Robert Morgan
Poet,  novelist, and short-story writer--and Carolina graduate
“Brave Enemies—Cowpens and the American Revolution”

Tues., Oct. 14
Maurice M. Martinez
Professor, Watson School of Education
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Professor Martinez will speak on the New Orleans Black Indians of Mardi Gras.

Thurs., Oct. 23
James M. McPherson
James McPherson is the, winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for his Battle Cry of Freedom, a one-volume history of the Civil War era. His new book on Lincoln as commander in chief is due out in the fall.

Tues., Oct. 28
David Houston
Chief Curator
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans
David Houston will discuss how the Ogden Museum’s understanding of art in the South is an ongoing process of engagement with a complex, multifaceted region characterized by issues and themes that carry forward from the nineteenth century to present in the art of the region.

Tues., Nov. 11
John C. Inscoe
University Professor, University of Georgia
“The Emotional Impact of Jim Crow:
Autobiographical Remembrances of Southern Race and Racism”