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Short-term Travel Fellowships for 2018-2019 Announced

June 11, 2018

The Summersell Center for the Study of the South and the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library of The University of Alabama are pleased to announce the recipients of short-term travel fellowships for 2018-2019. The winners are Dr. Sarah Gardner of Mercer University, who will be conducting research for her book, “A New Glass to See All Our Old Things Through”: Reading During the American Civil War, and Dr. Kathleen Hilliard of Iowa State University, who will be researching for […]

Student Group Attends National Lynching Memorial Unveiling

May 16, 2018

Dr. Giggie and a group of students attended the recent opening of a national lynching memorial in Montgomery. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice was founded by the Equal Justice Initiative on April 26th, 2018, in the heart of Alabama’s capital. While attending the unveiling ceremonies, Dr. Giggie and his students were able to meet Rev. C. T. Vivian, a minister deeply involved in the Civil Rights movement who worked alongside Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Additionally, the […]

PhD Candidate Melissa Young Awarded the 2018-2019 Rabbi Joachim Prinz Memorial Fellowship

May 4, 2018

PhD Candidate Melissa Young has recently been awarded the 2018-2019 Rabbi Joachim Prinz Memorial Fellowship. As part of her fellowship, Melissa will spend a month at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio. She will conduct research for a chapter of her dissertation and share her work as part of an open AJA seminar in the summer. Melissa’s dissertation focuses on the important role Birmingham’s Jews played in the city’s development from 1871-1950. It […]

Brie Smiley Accepted into Prestigious Research Apprenticeship

April 25, 2018

The Summersell Center is proud to announce that undergraduate Brie Smiley has been accepted into the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (MURAP) at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. MURAP is a program that targets underrepresented and minority undergraduate students who are interested in careers in academia. The program chooses twenty rising juniors and seniors every year, focusing on humanities students, to attend a ten week intensive research program. The application process is rigorous, but because of Brie’s […]

SCSS PHI Interns Kisha Emmanuel and Charles Thomason explore the Jennie B. Scott Family Papers

April 11, 2018

The Summersell Center for Southern History’s Public History Initiative partners students with on-campus and local organizations, such as the Gorgas House, W.H. Hoole Special Collections Library, and local churches and clubs, to conduct research and create projects that communicate their history to the public. This semester, Kisha Emmanuel and Charles Thomason, are interning at Hoole Special Collections Library here on The University of Alabama’s campus. They have the following to say about their experiences so far: Kisha Emmanuel For this […]

SCSS PHI Intern Lindsey Glick Explores the Role of Female Athletes at the Capstone

March 22, 2018

The Summersell Center for the Study of the South’s Public History Initiative partners students with on-campus and local organizations, such as the Gorgas House, W.H. Hoole Special Collections Library, and local churches and clubs, to conduct research and create projects that communicate their history to the public. This semester, Lindsey Glick, one of the Department of History’s undergraduate majors, is interning at the Gorgas House, here on The University of Alabama’s campus, and had the following to say about her […]

Graduate Student Caroline Gray Interns at the Gorgas House

March 5, 2018

The Summersell Center for Southern History’s Public History Initiative partners students with on-campus and local organizations, such as the Gorgas House, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, and local churches and clubs, to conduct research and create projects that communicate their history to the public. This semester, Caroline Gray, one of the Department of History’s MA students, is interning at the Gorgas House here on The University of Alabama’s campus. She has had the following to say about her experience so […]

Nominations for the 2018 Deep South Book Prize are now Being Accepted

February 1, 2018

The Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South at the University of Alabama continues to receive nominations for the 2018 Deep South Book Prize. Nominations will close on March 1, however. The prize is awarded biennially for the best book on the history or culture of the Deep South, and the author of the prizewinner will receive a cash award of $500. Books nominated for the next awarded prize must have been published between January 1, 2016 […]

Summersell Center Sponsors Visit to EJI Offices in Montgomery

October 26, 2017

Students in Dr. Giggie’s HY 400 – Southern Memory: Lynching in Alabama course visited the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery, Alabama on October 18th as part of their work to better understand and encourage awareness of racial violence during the post-Reconstruction era in Alabama. The students, who are researching ten African-Americans lynched in Pickens County between 1883 and 1933, presented their findings to the officials at EJI. The students have been working in a variety of sources – newspapers, journals, census, wills, deeds, […]

Mississippi State University Professor Jason Morgan War to Speak Thursday, Oct. 12, at 5 PM

October 3, 2017

The Summersell Center of the Study of the South and The University of Alabama Department of History will host Professor Jason Morgan Ward of Mississippi State University on Thursday, October 12, 2017, at 5 o’clock in room 30 ten Hoor Hall. Ward is the author of Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century (2016) and Defending White Democracy: The Making of the Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965 (2011). Ward’s talk is entitled, “Lifting the Veil: […]

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