What We are Reading Wednesday...
2025 Willie Lee Rose Award Winner Crystal R. Sanders' A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (UNC, 2024)
Crystal shared some of this groundbreaking research with us during the SAWH Annual Address.
Reminder: Here are the SAWH member affiliated panels at #2025SHA today, Friday 11/7. 3/3
Reminder: Here are the SAWH member affiliated panels at #2025SHA today, Friday 11/7. 2/3
Reminder: Here are the SAWH member affiliated panels at #2025SHA today, Friday 11/7. 1/3
SAWH Member (& SAWH past president!) and @thesouthernsha.bsky.social President Lorri Glover gives the Presidential Address, "Reimagining the American Revolution: Southern Women’s Wars for Independence," which reframes independence and revolution through the lens of Rose and Mary of South Carolina.
Special Edition of What We Are Reading Wednesday: the the 2025 SHA Program. So many SAWH members are presenting, chairing, or commenting. Here is the full list of SAWH @ #2025SHA panels.
We look forward to seeing everyone in St. Pete Beach later this week at #2025SHA.
please excuse our typo in the flyer - the Friday Annual Address and reception is at 4:30 pm!
Friday, November 7th @8am is the beloved SAWH Member & Graduate Student Breakfast. Tickets need to be purchased in advance (https://thesawh.org/.../member-grad-student-breakfast-at.../ ) Friday, November 7th @4:30 pm is the Annual Address and Reception. Crystal R. Sanders, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at Emory University will be speaking about “’In Pursuit of ‘Their Highest Potential’: Black Women Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and Postbaccalaureate Education during the Age of Jim Crow.”
The Countdown to #2025SHA has officially begun! Mark your calendars for the @sawh1970.bsky.social member/grad student breakfast & the annual address/reception by Crystal Sanders, Associate Professor of Af-Am Studies/History @ Emory University!
Find breakfast tix at (thesawh.org/sawh-confere...)
Who's ready for #2025SHA? The annual SAWH breakfast is 30 days away. Register now.
The beloved SAWH Member & Graduate Student Breakfast is 8 am on Friday, Nov 7. Tickets can be purchased here: thesawh.org/sawh-confere...
With so many inspiring and award-winning authors who are a part of the SAWH Membership, we want to know who are you assigning in your classes? Comment and tag the authors below!
UNC Press is having a 50% off flash sale for 48 hrs. I've published a few books with them. Might I recommend No Common Ground or Goat Castle (my personal fave)? If not, there are great books to be had. @uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/new-website-...
Thanks again to everyone who attended #SAWH2025!
ICYMI: Here is a special thank you message from Conference Organizer & Local Committee Chair @hbcustorian
Good Morning! #SAWH2025 Starts today. We look forward to seeing you all in Daytona. Check out today's schedule: www.sawh2025.org
Good Morning! #SAWH2025 Starts today. We look forward to seeing you all in Daytona. Check out today's schedule: www.sawh2025.org
The Countdown to #SAWH2025 cont:
Things Kick off Thurs, June 19th @ 6:30pm with the President's Banquet on the 2nd Floor of the Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center
Celebrate #Juneteenth & watch a director’s cut of the documentary, “Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter.”
As we get ready from #SAWH2025, check out the Welcome Message William Berry, Ph.D. - Acting President and Provost of our host institution, @bethunecookman : www.sawh2025.org/_files/ugd/5...
Check out www.sawh2025.org for more information and all of the Conference Details.
#seeyouindaytona
Here is the link: www.sawh2025.org/_files/ugd/5...
The Countdown to #SAWH2025 is underway! Check out the Welcome Message from SAWH President Michelle Haberland.
Check out www.sawh2025.org for more information and all of the Conference Details.
#seeyouindaytona
Flyer with beach scene of sunset under a palm tree to advertise registration for the SAWH 2025 Triennial Conference at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, from June 19 to 22, 2025. The registration link is provided at sawh2025.org.
The SAWH Triennial Conference is just over a month away, and we want you in Daytona Beach with us!
Register now at sawh2025.org
#sawh2025
SAWH’s 13th Triennial Website is Now Live!
www.sawh2025.org
June 19-22, 2025 @ Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL
Registration: $175 member/$200 non member - includes some meals
***Graduate Students & Contingent Faculty w/o institutional support can have their registration fees waived***
Stay tuned...Registration and the Conference Website for the 2025 Triennial Conference is coming soon!
The countdown to Daytona has officially begun. Will we see you there?
Welcome @sawh1970.bsky.social to Bluesky and the growing world of #skystorians !
One project we work on year-round is an annual bibliography of articles published in southern history.
We check 250+ journals for articles to include, but if you've got one out in 2024, we'd like to hear about it so we can check it out.
Here's the 2023 bib:
Muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/article/925439
Hello readers! Check out what's new in the November 2024 issue of the JSH www.thesha.org/contents
And while you're at it -- take a peek at the forthcoming TOC for the February 2025 issue 📖 ✍️ 👀 🗃️
The SAWH has officially joined Bluesky! Help us get started by following, posting, and commenting with your handles and research!