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McPherson-Mitchell Lecture Series

2023 McPherson-Mitchell Lecture

The Clotilda, America鈥檚 Last Slave Ship, and Africatown, the Community the Survivors Built

The 2023 McPherson-Mitchell Lecture was funded, in part, by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alabama Humanities Alliance

Monday, March 6, 6pm, Claudia Crosby Theater 

Film Screening of Afrikan by Way of American and Discussion with Producer Theo M. Moore II (BS 鈥12, MS 鈥16)

Tuesday, March 7, 6pm, Claudia Crosby Theater (Reception at 5:30 in lobby)

Roundtable Discussion with:

: journalist; Author, The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

: President,  

Theo M. Moore II (BS 鈥12, MS 鈥16): Executive Director, ; Producer, Afrikan by Way of American

Stacye Hathorn: State Archeologist, Alabama Historical Commission
 
Walter Givhan: Alabama Historical Commission

Previous Lectures

2020

Kevin M. Levin

Freelance Professional Speaker, Independent Historian

Author of Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth

2019

Dr. Sylviane Diouf

Independent Historian

"The Clotilda, Africa Town, and Beyond"

2018

Dr. Hardy Jackson

Eminent Professor of History Emeritus at Jacksonville State University

"The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera" 

2017

Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees

Director and Tribal Archivist of the Office of Archives and Records Management, Poarch Band of Creek Indians

"Discovering Lost Treasures: The Muscogee Education Movement's Influence on Archival Acquisitions at the Poarch Band of Creek Indians"

2016

Dr. Arlene W. Keeling

PhD, RN, FAAN, University of Virginia,  Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing and Assistant Director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Historical Nursing Inquiry

鈥淧roviding Care in the 鈥楬oot Owl Hollers鈥: The Frontier Nursing Service, 1925-1950鈥

2015

Dr. James C. Cobb

B. Phinizy Spalding Professor History, University of Georgia

"The South is Where You Find It: Contours of Southern Identity, Old and New"

2014

Dr. Kenneth Noe

Draughon Professor of Southern History, Auburn University

"The Yellowhammer War: Revisiting Alabama's Civil War at the Sesquicentennial"

2013

Dr. Jennifer Garlan

Independent Scholar

"When Hollywood Whistles Dixie: A Celluloid History of the South"

2012

Dr. Raymond O. Arsenault

John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History, University of South Florida

"Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice"

Congressman John Lewis

U.S. Representative

"A Personal Experience The Freedom Rides"

2011

Dr. Paul Sutter

Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder

"Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Making Sense of Georgia's Little Grand Canyon"

2010

Dr. James L. Roark

Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of American History, Emory University

"Why the Confederacy Lost"

2009

Dr. Margaret Humphreys

Josiah Charles Trent Professor of the History of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine,  Duke University

"The South's Secret Weapons: Disease, Environment, and the Civil War"

2008

Dr. Stephanie Yuhl

Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross

"Memory Matters: Personal and Public Heritage in Charleston"

2007

Dr. Fred Bailey

Professor, Abilene Christian University

"After Populism: Redeemer History and Social Control in New South Alabama, 1890-1920" 

2004

Dr. Wayne Flynt

Professor, Auburn University

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