Video: Gilder-Jordan Speaker Series, David Blight

View a lecture by David Blight, Yale Historian and author of “American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.” Blight spoke in Nov. 2011, as part of the Gilder-Jordan Speaker Series in Southern Cultural History.

Book of Essays Explores Scholar’s Role in Shaping Women’s History Studies

… UM professor pays tribute to mentor with volume A pioneer historian of American women is the inspiration for a book of essays edited by a University of Mississippi history professor. Elizabeth Anne Payne edited the volume “Writing Women’s History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott,” (University Press of Mississippi, 2011) which includes essays byRead the story …

Yale Historian to Examine Civil War in Civil Rights Era

OXFORD, Miss. – A Yale historian will visit the University of Mississippi Nov. 16 to share his insights on Civil War remembrance as part of the Gilder-Jordan Speaker Series in Southern Cultural History. David Blight will discuss his latest book, “American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era,” (Harvard University Press, 2011) inRead the story …