Susannah J. Ural
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Susannah J. Ural
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Historian at Mississippi State University; Frank & Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln & Civil War Studies (https://www.library.msstate.edu/williamscollection); Dir., Civil War & Recon. Govs. of MS Proj (http://cwrgm.org)
_Emancipation Celebration_, which features rare accounts of Juneteenth celebrations in 1864 New Orleans told from an entirely Black perspective, inspired this article by Ann Marsh Daly & me. Thanks @jimdowns.bsky.social for encouraging us to publish this!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Before Juneteenth
A firsthand account of freedom’s earliest celebrations
www.theatlantic.com
June 17, 2024 at 12:36 PM
MS State History Department's 15th annual Symposium for History Undergraduate Research begins today w/ keynote speaker Jim Downs. If you're in the area, please join us! Check out the program: bit.ly/4aqbtQS #skystorians
March 22, 2024 at 3:56 PM