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Anna Freeman spent summer 2018 working with both Darius Scott and Rev. Bill Kearney to collect oral histories in Warren County, NC as a part of the Stories to Save Lives project. The project was originally started by Dr. Ross … Read more
“3-D Genealogy: Tools for Uncovering the Roots of Wealth and Privilege” Robert G. Williams conducted research at the Brookings Institution before moving to Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he has taught as an economics professor since 1978. … Read more
Confederate Soldiers' Monument, Athens, Georgia. Photo Credit: Lucy Britt. “Effects of Confederate Monuments on Political Attitudes and Behavior” Debates around Confederate monuments and the laws in Southern states preventing their removal often center around concerns that, on one side, honoring … Read more
Caroline Wood Newhall is a Ph.D. candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Department of History and the Center’s 2018-19 McColl Fellow. She will speak about her dissertation research on black prisoners of war who were captured by the Confederacy … Read more
“Popular Music, Gentrification, and the Future of Atlanta’s Cabbagetown" Atlanta’s Cabbagetown neighborhood grew up around the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, which opened in 1881 and operated for nearly a century. It was home to Fiddlin’ John Carson, whose 1923 … Read more