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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
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Professor 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
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Non-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
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Former 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
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Statement 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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