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Caroline Grego’s Hurricane Jim Crow Wins Deep South Book Prize

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Winner Caroline Grego, Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Hurricane Jim Crow is an intense and heart-rending account of the destruction, aftermath, and lasting legacies of the 1893 Sea Islands Hurricane. In the devastation of the storm, White southerners sought to take advantage of the ravaged and independent Black sea islanders to consolidate White supremacist policy and erase Black contributions. Caroline Grego […]

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Summersell Center Announces 2024-25 Short-Term Fellowship Winners

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The Summersell Center and the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library of the University of Alabama are pleased to announce the five recipients of short-term travel fellowships for 2024-2025. The winners, Emily Ruth Allen; Dr. W. Neal Holmes; Beth Hunter; Dante Whittaker, Jr.; and Monique Wimby, will travel to the Hoole Library during the course of the next year and use its holdings as part of a book project or a dissertation. Read further for more details on each scholar […]

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Summersell Center Accepting Nominations for 2026 Deep South Book Prize

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The Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South and the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at The University of Alabama are pleased to announce that they are receiving nominations for the 2026 Summersell Deep South Book Prize for the best book on the history of the American South. The author of the prizewinning book will be awarded a cash prize and be invited to give an address and meet with faculty and students at The […]

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Short-Term Research Fellowship Program Applications

This image is a Cartes de Visite showing the 1865 Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. It's not held in the Williams collection, but since all of their images had watermarks, this is what we had to use.

To support the study of southern history and promote the use of the manuscript collections housed at The University of Alabama, the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, and The University of Alabama Libraries will offer a total of eight research fellowships in the amount of $750 each for the 2024-2025 academic year.Eligible researchers will have projects that entail work to be conducted in southern history or southern […]

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