| The author of the prize-winning book, Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture, will speak at 3 p.m. Sept. 21 in Sloan College, Room 112.
Karen L. Cox, assistant professor and director of public history at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, will talk about Dixie's Daughters, her most recent publication and winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for Best Book in Southern Women’s History
In addition to Dixie's Daughters, Cox's publications include "The Confederate Monument at Arlington: A Token of Reconciliation," in Cynthia Mills and Pamela Simpson eds., Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscape of Southern Memory; “The Rise of the United Daughters of the Confederacy,” in John Salmond and Bruce Clayton eds., Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph: Southern Women, Their Institutions and Their Communities; and “Out with the New and In with the Old: Mississippi’s United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1890-1930,” in Martha Swain, Elizabeth Payne, and Marjorie Spruill eds., Mississippi Women of Achievement, Volume II.
Cox's lecture at USC, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the USC Department of History, the USC Institute for Southern Studies, and the USC Women's Studies Program.
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