UL Lafayette lecture to explore Confederate monuments debate

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Award-winning historian Dr. Karen L. Cox will discuss СAPPConfederate Monuments in the Jim Crow SouthСAPP during a lecture at the СAPP.

The second Guilbeau Lecture will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11, in H.L. Griffin Hall, room 147. It is free and open to the public.

Cox is an Organization of American Historians distinguished lecturer and a professor of history at the СAPP of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Her book, СAPPDixieСAPPs Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture,СAPP won the 2004 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians for the Best Book in Southern Women's History.

The СAPP of North Carolina Press published her СAPPGoat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic SouthСAPP in 2017.

Cox also has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and Time, and has appeared on the BBC, NPR and C-Span.

UL LafayetteСAPPs hosts the Guilbeau Lecture Series, which is funded by the Guilbeau Charitable Trust.

The trust honors the memories of history graduate student Jamie Guilbeau and his mother, Thelma Guilbeau. The Guilbeaus created the trust through an endowment managed by the UL Lafayette Foundation.

Parking for the lecture is available in the Girard Park Circle garage, 138 Girard Park Circle.

 

Photo caption: Dr. Karen L. Cox is a professor of history at the СAPP of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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