Historian James T. Carson will discuss “The Old South and the Ancient South” at 4 p.m. March 24 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Historian James T. Carson will discuss “The Old South and the Ancient South” at 4 p.m. March 24 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The free public talk will be at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center on Stadium Drive.
An associate professor and associate dean at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Carson will take his cue from a conversation between Quentin Compson and his Canadian roommate, Shreve, in William Faulkner’s novel “Absalom, Absalom!”
He will invoke the Canadian notion of founding peoples to explore the nature of Southern history, arguing that the region is affected today by the legacy of the ancient South before European contact.
Carson specializes in the ethno-history of colonial and early national America. His books are “Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal” (1999) and “Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths and Stories from the Colonial South” (2007).
The talk is one of the James A. Hutchins Lectures presented by UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South with support from the UNC General Alumni Association. The late Hutchins was a UNC alumnus and a founder of CARE, the international anti-poverty organization.
Center for the Study of the American South Web site: http://uncsouth.org/
Center for the Study of the American South contact: Nancy Schoonmaker, (919) 962-0503, csasnancy@gmail.com