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History Professor Awarded Prestigious NEH Fellowship
Jarod Roll, associate professor of history at the University of Mississippi, has been awarded a coveted fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The yearlong fellowship allows scholars
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Professor Anne Twitty’s New Book
Before Dred Scott: Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857 Cambridge University Press, 2016 In her new book, Anne Twitty, associate professor of history, draws on a largely
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Professor Mikaëla Adams’s New Book
Who Belongs? Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South Oxford University Press, 2016 Who can lay claim to a legally-recognized Indian identity? Who decides whether or not an
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42nd Annual Porter Fortune, Jr., Symposium and 10th UM Conference on the Civil War
Please join us for the 42nd Annual Porter Fortune, Jr. Symposium, A Just and Lasting Peace. Panels will take place at the Yerby Conference Center from 8:30-5:30, Friday and Saturday,
Read MoreIan Beamish to Speak on Slavery in Antebellum Mississippi
The Arch Dalrymple III Department of History will host Ian Beamish for “Light Fingers and Heavy Hearts: Cotton Picking, Slavery, and the Quota System in the Deep South,” a presentation
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