“Southern Cross, North Star" - Guest Lecture - Dr. Christopher Phillips, Univ. of Cincinnati
Channel: University of Alabama Libraries
Date: 2018-10-03

“Southern Cross, North Star:  The Politics of Region, Irreconciliation, and Civil War Memory in the American Heartland," a guest lecture from Dr. Christopher Phillips, Department of History, University of Cincinnati. 

Recorded Sept. 13, 2018, in the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library at the University of Alabama. 

Phillips is the John and Dorothy Hermanies Professor of American History and the University Distinguished Professor in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, at the University of Cincinnati.  

His research interests are in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and more specifically, in the American South, with particular interest in the border states.

He is the author of seven books focused on slavery and freedom, urban African Americans, emancipation, war, race, politics and memory during and after the Civil War era, including "The Rivers Ran Backward:  The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border" (2016), which received the Tom Watson Brown Prize from the Society of Civil War Historians and the George and Ann Richards Center for Research on the Civil War Era, as well as the Society of Military Historians' Distinguished Book Award, the Midwestern History Associations's John Gjerde Prize, the State Historical Society of Missouri's Missouri Book Award and the Ohio Academy of History's Distinguished Book Prize.  It was also named a Choice outstanding academic book and a Civil War Monitor best book of the year. 

Phillips is a member of the Organization of American Historians distinguished lectureship program, a speakers bureau dedicated to American history.

This event was sponsored by The University of Alabama Libraries and the Summersell Center for the Study of the South, Department of History, in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama.