How communities record climate change   Working with communities, building trusts with residents, learning their historical knowledge  – these are all critical to understanding climate change and how diverse communities in the U.S. South are responding. Professor in UNC’s Department … Read more

Throughout October 2020 WATCH THE KEYNOTE AND ALL COMPLETED SERIES EVENTS HERE More than a century after she began her journalistic work, Ida B. Wells was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. To celebrate the life and work of … Read more

Washington Post Essay by Malinda Maynor Lowery   Tom Cotton wants to save American history. But he gets it all wrong. by Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) recently proposed “saving American history” by refusing to tell the … Read more

“The Shared Past and Present of Black and Indigenous People in the United States”   Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery, historian and Director of the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill, delivered the 2020 Keynote Address … Read more

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall on Sisters and Rebels Watch the recording of Jacquelyn Dowd Hall’s discussion of her book, “Sisters and Rebels.” The presentation is part of our summer virtual book club series on race and injustice. In this UNC Professor … Read more