Lecture by Paul Harvey: "The Evolution of Southern Religious Conservatism."

Paul Harvey is a professor of History at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the author of Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 (UNC Press, 1997) and, more recently, Freedom's Coming: Religious Cultures and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era.

The lecture is sponsored by the Department of History, the Summersell Center for the Study of the South, and UA Libraries. It will take place Monday, September 22nd at 4pm in Gorgas Library room 205. A reception will follow the lecture.

This event is free and open to the public.

Race and Place in the American South

Since 2002 the department has held conferences on the theme of "Race and Place." These conferences have brought an impressive array of younger scholars to the UA campus. This year's panels include Change and Reaction in the Modern South, Race and Leisure in the New South, Southern Foodways and Folkways, Veterans and Vagrants in the New and Modern South, and Coping with Emancipation. This conference is free and open to the public.

For further information, visit the Summersell Center website.