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James C. (Jim) Cobb

Historian James C. (Jim) Cobb to Speak on the 'Solid South' at Washington and Lee University

 
Lexington, VA (April 27, 2016) - James C. (Jim) Cobb, historian of the American South and award-winning author, will speak at Washington and Lee University on May 4 at 4:30 p.m. in Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library.

Cobb will speak on “The Making, Un-Making and Re-Making of the ‘Solid South.’” His talk is free, and the public is invited.

He will give the 2016 Mellon/Griffiths Visiting Professor in History Lecture which is sponsored by the Mellon Project on History in the Public Sphere, the Griffith Professorship and the Class of 1960 Professorship in Ethics. He is a visiting professor of history at W&L for the Spring Term.

Cobb is the B. Phinizy Spalding Professor Emeritus in the History of the American South at the University of Georgia and has written widely on the interaction between economy, society and culture in the American South. He also is the former president of the Southern Historical Society.

Cobb is the author of several books, including “The South and America Since World War II” (2010); “Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity” (2005); and “The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity” (1992) and other publications.

Among his many honors are Senior Visiting Mellon Scholar at Cambridge University; the McClemore Prize, awarded by the Mississippi Historical Society for his book on Mississippi history; two Green-Ramsdell Awards by the Journal of South History; the Georgia Historical Quarterly’s E. Merton Coulter Award; and an Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship.
 
 
 

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