www.youtube.com – WJTV 12 News – 2023-07-06 10:20:44

SUMMARY: Professor Fitzhugh Brundage and Professor Charles Reagan Wilson recently spoke at the two Mississippi museums about Brundage’s latest book, “A New History of the American South.” The lunch program, organized by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, is a popular event that attracts audiences from both Mississippi and around the world. Wilson, who mentored Brundage during his undergraduate days at Harvard, interviewed Brundage during the event. Attendees had the opportunity to buy books and have them signed by the professors. The next lunch program will feature author Elizabeth Boyd discussing “Southern Beauty.”

On Wednesday, Fitzhugh Brundage, William Umstead Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, and Charles Reagan Wilson, Professor Emeritus of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, took center stage Wednesday afternoon at the Two Mississippi Museum’s weekly History is Lunch series. Wilson presented “A New History of the American South” at the program. The museum’s hour-long program is held in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building in Jackson.  

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