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The sweeping story of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the largest Native American Tribe east of the Mississippi River, sheds new light on America’s defining moments through the complex lens of Southern identity — juxtaposing American history as taught in our public schools with how it is taught at the dinner tables of the […]

Southern Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the diverse constellation of topics and ideas relating to the American South. The Minor in Southern Studies provides undergraduate students the opportunity to explore the region from historical, cultural, geographical, literary, political, and artistic perspectives, among others. Students gain knowledge and experience in critical thinking, […]

UNC Charlotte Students: Interested in studying the Deep South up close and personal over Spring Break? Want to visit museums, tour historic sites, and see places Mark Twain wrote about? Check out our new Spring Break course at the upcoming interest meeting, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23rd @ 5:30pm. WHERE: DENNY 217. 

The start of a new semester means new, interesting talks. Come join the History faculty and friends for this event.

Award-winning documentarian Rory Karpf, whose most recent documentary work for ESPN, “Nature Boy,” focused on the complicated and controversial life of professional wrestling superstar Ric Flair, will deliver UNC Charlotte’s annual Levine Lecture on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.  Doors open at 5:30 p.m. followed by the lecture at 6 p.m. and a reception at 7 p.m. at Levine Museum of the New South […]

Students in Dr. Ashli Stokes’ Honors Seminar, Consuming Southern Foodways, spent the Fall 2017 semester completing field research in order to document and rhetorically anlayze the region’s foodways on a class blog. Attending local church BBQs, exploring the city’s newest food traditions from newcomers to Charlotte from around the globe, and participating in their own […]

Jimmie Lee and De Kirkpatrick provided a engaging visit to Dr. Jurgen Buchenau’s LBST 2101 class last week to kick off the Center’s “Storytellers” programming theme for the year. They discussed “Interrogating Slavery: A Local Perspective” and judging from the photos, kept the audience riveted!

Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick were classmates at Myers Park High School in the 1960s, but it was almost 50 years later that the two men discovered their connection: De’s great-great-grandfather, Hugh Kirkpatrick, owned Jimmie Lee’s great-great-great-grandfather, a slave named Sam. Together, the Kirkpatricks began examining their families and Mecklenburg County where they grew […]

Justene Hill Edwards flyer Sept 2017.docx This Thursday, Sept. 28, from 3:30-4:45 in Belk (Gym) 201, there will be a talk, free and open to the public, by Dr. Justene Hill Edwards, entitled “The Slaves’ Economy, Cotton, and Capitalism in Antebellum America.”   Dr. Hill Edwards, an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia, earned her Ph.D. […]

Ferris flyer.docx Event of Center interest: Southern food expert Dr. Ferris comes to Dr. Benny Andres’ class to speak about the role of food in the South. Sponsored by the History Dept. and the Dowd Foundation. Burson 110, 3:30-4:45PM.