Southern historian
George Tindall dies in Chapel Hill at 85
Southern historian Dr. George Brown Tindall, Kenan
professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, who is remembered as an early advocate of equality for black
Americans, died Saturday (Dec. 2) in Chapel Hill. He was 85. Click
here to read more.
UNC-Chapel
Hill unveils first exhibits in new online museum of university
history
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill unveiled the
first 15 special exhibits in a new virtual museum of university history
at a public symposium held on University Day, Thursday, Oct. 12.
Click here to read more..
Southern
Oral History Program and UNC Library win $505,232 grant
The
Institute for Museum and Library Services has awarded UNC’s
Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) and the UNC Library a $505,232
grant to digitize and publish online 500 oral history interviews
conducted by the SOHP over the past thirty years. Click here to
read more.
Center announces new Southern Studies Curriculum
The Center now has the initial plans in place to coordinate a Curriculum
in Southern Studies that will be housed in the College of Arts and
Sciences at UNC. Click here to read
more.
Hutchins pledge secures new Center home in historic Love
House
Thanks to magnificent gifts for restoration and expansion from Mr.
Glenn Hutchins and the Martha and Spencer Love Foundation, construction
will begin this summer on the Center's future home--a building that
is a true reminder of earlier times. Once, when Chapel Hill was
small and tight, young professors built roomy houses with big porches
and sprawling lawns. Click
here to read more.
New Postdoctoral Fellowships Awarded
The Center has awarded two one-year postdoctoral fellowships in southern
studies. Recipients of the award are Amy Louise Wood, a recent Ph.D. from Emory
University, and Katherine Mellen Charron, who received her Ph.D. from Yale University
in December 2005. Click here
to read more about the fellowship recipients.
SOHP Preserves Oral Histories in Rapidly Changing Cary,
North Carolina
In Cary, words are helping to preserve history and remember
a way of life that has vanished in the wake of sprawling subdivisions,
chain stores and four-lane highways. Click here to read more.
Ferris addresses role of higher education in effecting
social change on WUNC Public Radio's "The State of Things"
"The State of Things" host Frank Stasio spoke
to participants in the "Navigating the Global South" conference
about the role of the state’s institutions of higher learning
can play in effecting social change. Guests included William Ferris,
professor of history and senior associate director of the Center
for the Study of the American South. Click here to hear the talk.
Southern Cultures garners new
award
The Center’s award-winning quarterly celebrated its tenth anniversary last
year, a milestone that coincided with the retirement of John Shelton Reed as
co-editor. The occasion of Reed’s retirement brought recognition for his
longtime work from one of academia’s most respected groups—the Council
of Editors of Learned Journals—who named him runner-up for its Distinguished
Retiring Editor Award. Click here to
read more.
Ferris to receive Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award
Dr. William Ferris, senior associate director of the Center for the
Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
will receive the Richard
Wright Literary Excellence Award at a Mississippi celebration Feb. 25. Click
here to read more.
Ancient artifacts found on North Carolina campus
From National Geographic
News
The discovery of 2,000-year-old artifacts on the campus of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is prompting archaeologists
to rethink their theories about the early presence of Native Americans
in North Carolina. Click
here to read more.
Interviews with former presidents and other famous southerners
now available for on-line listening
Some 2,500 interviews, recorded since 1973, are available for listening
on-line. Click here
to read more.
$100,000 gift advances Southern Oral History Program's
investigation of "The Long Civil Rights Movement"
Thanks to an anonymous donor’s generous recent gift of $100,000,
the SOHP is currently broadening its “Long Civil Rights Movement”
initiative, launched in 2003, which aims to document the last half-century
of social change in the South and to lay the groundwork for the
next generation of research on race, economic justice, and gender
issues in the region. Click
here to read more.
Center director co-edits The American South in a Global
World
With James L. Peacock and Carrie R. Matthews, Harry L. Watson, the
Center’s director, has co-edited a new book from UNC Press
that looks beyond broad theories to examine the specific effects
of globalizing forces on the southern United States. Click
here to read more.
Groundbreaking conferences, publications, and the SouthNow
Weblog keep the Program on Southern Politics, Media, & Public
Life at the nation’s forefront
The Program on Southern Politics,
Media, and
Public Life continued to broaden its work with elected officials, journalists,
and public leaders during the past year by holding groundbreaking conferences
and publishing provocative analyses of the Southern political landscape.
Center launches program to support travel to scholarly
conferences
Graduate students at UNC-CH who are presenting papers or
comparable productions about the American South at scholarly conferences
may now apply for as much as $400 in annual travel support from
the
Center. Contact Barbara Call at bcall@email.unc.edufor
more information.
The W. Horace Carter Project reveals one man’s courage
during turbulent times
On a hot summer night in 1950 Horace Carter watched as three
dozen cars filled with armed, robed and hooded Ku Klux Klansmen
made their way through Tabor City,
a small town on the North Carolina-South Carolina border. Click here to read
more.
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