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Lectures, Events and Talks
about the South

April 2010
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April 2010
5th Annual Charleston Lecture on Southern Affairs
Alfred Dupont Chandler Jr. Lectureship on Southern Business History
Late April 2010 Calender

April 13 - SOHP Seth Kotch on WUNC's The State of Things. From 12 - 1 pm.

April 13 - Hutchins Lecturewith Dr. Trudier Harris, 4 pm at the UNC Alumni Center.

April 15 - Music on the Porch with Catherine Edgerton and Kym Register of Midtown Dickens, Shirle' Hale of Free Electric State, and Pierce Freelon of The Beast. 5 to 7 pm. Directions here.

April 19 - 5th Annual Charleston Lecture with Congressman John Spratt (D-SC). 5 pm, Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium.

April 22 - Alfred Dupont Chandler Jr. Lectureship on Southern Business History featuring John Majewskiof UC-Santa Barbara. 4:30 pm at the UNC Alumni Center's Royall Room. Parking instructions here.
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5th Annual Charleston Lecture
on Southern Affairs

 Monday, April 19th  5 pm

Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium

Congressman John Spratt

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

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Professor John Majewski's lecture is entitled, "Southern Secessionists and the Economic Vision of the Confederacy."

Popular opinion often associates th
e 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,Majewski book cover Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009).