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Interview with visiting faculty Dr. Alexander X. Byrd at the 2017 NEH Summer Institute “Recognizing an Imperfect Past: History, Memory, and the American Public.”Dr. Byrd is an associate professor of History at Rice University. His area of expertise is Afro America, especially black life in the Atlantic world and the Jim Crow South.
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Interview with visiting scholar Kevin Levin at the Georgia Historical Society's 2017 NEH Summer Institute "Recognizing an Imperfect Past: History, Memory, and the American Public." Kevin Levin is a public historian and former high school history teacher based in Boston, Massachusetts. He specializes in the history of the American Civil War and for the last ten years has shared that passion with as broad an audience as possible at his website, Civil War Memory. He has taught history on the high school and college levels, most recently as a Visiting Instructor of History at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Interview with visiting scholar Dr. Glenn T. Eskew at the Georgia Historical Society's 2017 NEH Summer Institute "Recognizing an Imperfect Past: History, Memory, and the American Public." Dr. Eskew is Professor of History at Georgia State University where he teaches courses in southern history. His recent biography, Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013), received the Malcolm and Muriel Barrow Bell Award from the Georgia Historical Society. His book But For Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), received the Francis Butler Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association and Longwood College.
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In our first “Dispatch From Off the Deaton Path,” Dr. Deaton shares his thoughts on The Great Plague by Stephen Porter and how the Black Death compares to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Interview with visiting scholar Dr. Anne Sarah Rubin at the Georgia Historical Society’s “Recognizing an Imperfect Past: History, Memory, and the American Public.” Anne Sarah Rubin is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she teaches courses on the Civil War, American South, and the Nineteenth Century United States. She is also the Associate Director of the Imaging Research Center. Her most recent book, a study of the many legacies of Sherman’s March is Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory. Her online exploration of Sherman’s March can be found at www.shermansmarch.org.
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Listen to GHS Senior Historian Dr. Stan Deaton discuss the great flu pandemic of 1918 in a new installment of Dispatches from Off the Deaton Path.
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In this Dispatch, Dr. Deaton discusses the history of an often overlooked but essential item.
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Interview with visiting scholar Dr. E.M. “Woody” Beck at the Georgia Historical Society’s “Recognizing an Imperfect Past: History, Memory, and the American Public.” Dr. Beck is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on the racial violence in the American South. He spent over four years compiling an inventory of threatened, failed, and averted lynchings; presently he is investigating factors influencing whether local authorities intervened to stop mob violence.
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Dr. Sidney Milkis of the University of Virginia and Dr. Stan Deaton of Georgia Historical Society consider how the American experiment in self-government has evolved to meet the challenges of an ever-changing country over the last 250 years.
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In this Dispatch, Dr. Deaton recalls baseball great Hank Aaron, who broke Babe Ruth’s record in 1974.
