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University of Mississippi

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History Faculty to Serve on the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Context

Three members of the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History have been selected by Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter to serve on the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Context (CACHC), which
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UM Professor Awarded Prestigious Princeton Fellowship

  Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies Shennette Garrett-Scott has been awarded a Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies fellowship to Princeton University for
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Jessie Wilkerson Earns Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Jessica Wilkerson, assistant professor of history and Southern Studies, trades Oxford, Mississippi, for Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the 2016–17 academic year as part of the Visiting Scholars
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Professor Charles Ross’s New Book

Mavericks, Money, and Men: The AFL, Black Players, and the Evolution of Modern Football Temple University Press, 2016 “Although other writers have explored the history of the American Football
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Stanford Professor to Discuss the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

James T. Campbell will present “Freedom Now: History, Memory, and the Mississippi Freedom Movement” on Monday, April 11th at 3:30PM in the Overby Center Auditorium. This event should be of
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