Award-winning poet, author, and creative writing professor Joseph Bathanti will deliver the 2016 Charleston Lecture in Southern Affairs, titled “Alma Stone Williams: Black Mountain College’s First Black Student.” This lecture will be held in the Pleasants Room in Wilson Library. … Read more

“Manners, Memory, and Murder in America’s Holy City” Sometimes called the “Holy City,” Charleston, South Carolina is one of America’s oldest and most historic cities. It has won numerous awards for its residents’ politeness, and it has been chosen as … Read more

Join us for a public poster session, as our 2016 grant and fellowship recipients present their summer (and ongoing) research with the Southern Research Circle (SRC). Successful applicants were awarded from UNC-Chapel Hill’s departments of Geography, Anthropology, Music, English & … Read more

Up next from Southern Cultures: a special (Fall 2016) issue focusing on 21st Century Fiction — including six new works of creative short fiction, critical essays on contemporary southern literature, and a who’s who literary roundtable feature we’re calling “Twenty, Twenty-One.” … Read more

New episodes of Press Record, our podcast about the joys and challenges of learning history by talking to those who lived it, are released three times each semester on SoundCloud and iTunes. Check it out here!