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John Neff Featured on Southern Education Desk

John Neff, associate professor of history and director of the University of Mississippi’s Center for Civil War Research, offers his perspective on Civil War symbols in today’s society
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Conference on Gender, War, and Memory in the Anglo-American World

Conference on Gender, War, and Memory in the Anglo-American World

Please join the Center for Civil War Research and WAR-Net for the University of Mississippi Conference on Gender, Memory, and War in the Anglo-American World, which commemorates the 150th, 100th,
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Theda Perdue to Present 2015 Gilder-Jordan Lecture

On Wednesday, September 9 at 7pm in the University’s Nutt Auditorium, Theda Perdue of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present the 2015 Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern
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UM History Department Named for Arch Dalrymple III

The late Arch Dalrymple III would likely have become a history professor, except that his father’s untimely death kept the young University of Mississippi (UM) graduate at home to run
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Graduate Student Travis Jaquess Wins Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Research Competition

University of Mississippi history graduate student Travis Jaquess, whose research focuses on fatherhood in colonial America, recently tied for first place in the university-wide Three Minute Thesis
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