In its aim to nurture a vibrant research culture that engages with the both students and the general public, the centre hosts the annual Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series, which is published as an annual book series by The Johns Hopkins University Press. This series is designed to bring together the very best scholars in the field to stimulate open-ended debate on critical issues in the southern past.
Volumes in the series:
Slavery's Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation, by Eric Foner, Walter Johnson, and Richard Follett (2011)
"The concise and elegant . . . Slavery's Ghost advances our understandings of nineteenth-century freedom in new and challenging ways. It deserves to be mandatory reading in all upper-level undergraduate and graduate U. S. and African-American history courses." -- Journal of Southern History (Feb. 2013)
Secession Winter: When the Union Fell Apart, by Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, and Elizabeth R. Varon (2013)
The 2012-13 Series: The Global History of Southern Commodities
- Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of American History, Harvard University
March 12, 2012 - Barbara Hahn, Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University
May 14, 2012 - Peter A. Coclanis, Albert Ray Newsome Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
October 22, 2012 - Richard Follett, Reader in American History, University of Sussex
May 2013
