5th Annual Charleston Lecture on Southern Affairs
Monday, April 19th 5 pm Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium
The Center for the Study of the American South is honored to have Congressman John M. Spratt Jr.
(D-SC), representing the 5th District of South Carolina, presenting this year's 5th Annual Charleston Area Alumni Lecture
on Southern Affairs. Congressman Spratt was first elected to Congress
in 1982 and is Chairman of the House Budget Committee. Congressman
Spratt is also the second ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services
Committee and serves on three subcommittees: Oversight and
Investigations, Strategic Forces, and Air and Land Forces.
The Charleston Lecture will be held Monday, April 19 in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt
Auditorium at 5 pm. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Please be aware that parking is limited. Parking instructions and directions to the auditorium
are available here.
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*********** 2010 Alfred Dupont Chandler Jr. Lectureship on Southern Business History
Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:30 pm UNC Alumni Center's Royall Room
Professor John Majewski's lecture is entitled, "Southern Secessionists and the Economic Vision of the Confederacy."
Popular opinion often associates the Confederacy with an agrarian economy devoted to states rights and limited government. Professor John Majewski's research complicates this traditional story. He argues that many southern secessionists viewed political independence as an exhilarating opportunity to build a more modern and more diversified economy. Secessionists, he contends, believed that a strong, activist government could promote more industry and commerce, which would better enable the Confederacy to protect slavery. Professor John Majewski is chair of the history department at UC Santa Barbara.
This talk is based on his most recent book, Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
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