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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.

Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick, a retired educator and high school football standout, and H.D. “De” Kirkpatrick, author and forensic psychologist, will share their story about race, football and civil rights in 1960s Charlotte during ‘The Shared Story of Race in the South.’ This event, scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 21, is this year’s annual UNC Charlotte Levine Lecture. The men’s compelling, […]

Join Our Community Cultural Coffeehouses For a Look at Growing Up As An Immigrant in Charlotte UNC Charlotte and Queens University of Charlotte invite you to explore what it is like to live as a member of the Muslim and the Latino/Dreamer Immigrant communities in Charlotte at two Community Cultural Coffeehouses. Who: Our students from Muslim […]

Hard to believe it was just over a week ago when Heather Ann Thompson gave an amazing talk for the Center about her book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. Since last Wednesday, her book has been named #1 on Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Heartrending Fiction List,” to Newsweek’s […]

Center for Study of the New South Takes Look at 1971 Attica Prison Uprising Former UNC Charlotte associate professor Heather Ann Thompson will talk about the historical and contemporary importance of the 1971 Attica prison uprising at a public lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 30. Her book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its […]