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Professor Garrett Felber Wins Fellowship at Harvard
Garrett Felber will focus on writing two books examining African Americans and imprisonment Garrett Felber AUGUST 14, 2020 BY KATHRYN ALBRITTON A University of Mississippi history professor is
Read MoreProfessor Paul Polgar Named a Finalist for the 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize
Congrats to Professor Paul Polgar, one of the three finalists for the 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize, which honors the best notification book on the slave trade, slavery & anti-slavery
Read MoreNon-US History Faculty Statement on Confederate Monument Relocation
We, the undersigned historians of the University of Mississippi, join our colleagues in American history in repudiating the plans to renovate the university cemetery as part of the Confederate monument
Read MoreFormer Head of Southern Studies, Ted Ownby, Receives Fulbright Award
OXFORD, Miss. – After Ted Ownby stepped down as the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi in 2019, he wanted to do something different, so
Read MoreStatement by US Historians on Recently Released Confederate Monument Plans
On June 22, 2020, the Americanist faculty in the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History released a statement in response to recently obtained plans created by the University of Mississippi
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