By recounting historic debates over sex and morality, R. Marie Griffith explains our political divides
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In Moral Combat, Chattanooga native R. Marie Griffith tells the history of the twentieth-century United States through religious debates over issues of sex and morality, exploring such topics as birth control, sex education, LGBT rights, and sexual harassment.
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Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker explain how Southern politics shaped the modern United States
In The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance, Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker see two traditions in the modern political history of the South, with clashing implications for the state of American democracy.
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Marcia Chatelain explains how McDonald’s intersects with the history of the civil rights movement
In her Pulitzer Prize-winning history Franchise, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain explains how the story of McDonald’s intersected with the civil rights movement. Chatelain will discuss the book at a virtual event hosted by the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis on February 8.
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Suzanne Cope profiles Black women who used food to fight for freedom
In Power Hungry, author Suzanne Cope profiles Aylene Quin, a restaurant owner in McComb, Mississippi, and Memphis resident Cleo Silvers, who ran free breakfast programs for the Black Panther Party. By feeding people, they advanced the Black struggle for freedom.
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Wayne Dowdy documents the history of enslaved African Americans in Memphis
Memphis writer Wayne Dowdy makes another critical contribution to local history with Enslavement in Memphis.
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Rob Nixon discusses writers, activists, and the challenges of the Global South
In his award-winning book, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Princeton professor Rob Nixon looks at writer-activists and environmental justice across the Global South. Nixon will give the Naseeb Shaheen Memorial Lecture, hosted online by the University of Memphis on November 18.
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