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Monthly Meeting - J. Brent Morris

  • 11 May 2022
  • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Country Club of Hilton Head
  • 80

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  • Monthly Meeting at Country Club of Hilton Head

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*** Register by May 3 ***

If you want a vegetarian meal email Doug Oblander.


Professor J. Brent Morris

Civil War Part II:
The Birth and Death of Reconstruction in South Carolina

J. Brent Morris is Professor of history and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of the Reconstruction Era at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. His publications include his prize-winning first book Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America (2014), Yes Lord, I Know the Road: A Documentary History of African Americans in South Carolina 1526-2008 (2017), and A South Carolina Chronology (2020). He has three other books that will be published in the next year, including Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal SwampThe Changing Palmetto State: A New History of South Carolina Since WWII, and the edited collection Reconstruction at 150: Reassessing America’s “New Birth of Freedom.” 

He has published dozens of other articles and essays in The New York Times, the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, and the Journal of Southern History, among others. 

Brent was the 2010 recipient of the South Carolina Historical Society's Malcolm C. Clark Award, was named 2016 University of South Carolina Breakthrough Star for Research and Scholarship, and was awarded the 2018 Award of the Order of the South, the highest award bestowed by the Southern Academy of Letters, Arts, and Sciences (previous awardees include Eudora Welty and James Dickey). He is currently a USC System Academic Leadership Fellow (2020-22). 

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