The University of South Alabama Department of History helps students gain an ability to understand unfamiliar people and societies, read and think critically, and write with clarity and precision. With a dedicated faculty covering a diverse array of geographic and intellectual areas, as well as an expansive temporal depth, history majors will not only learn about the past, they will learn to create history.
What Can I Do With a Degree in History?
History majors at South follow many career paths with their degree. Graduates move on to teach students about the past, preserve historic buildings, create museum exhibits, or film documentaries. Others pursue careers in law, journalism and business. Workplaces need employees who can quickly digest large amounts of information, draw logical conclusions from it, and express themselves clearly orally and in writing.
Kevin Lee, True Crime in Mobile
Kevin Lee, arts editor of the Lagniappe newspaper, will talk about his new book, Sinners
Above All Others: Seedy and Sordid Tales from Mobile's Underbelly
6 p.m. | Marx Library Audtorium
Deidra Dees, Historical Poetry and Native American History
Deidra Dees, an instrucot of Native American history at South Alabama, will discuss
her new book of historical poetry, Indian Ice
6pm | Marx Library Auditorium
Wedneday October 14: The Stallworth Lecture
Dr. Caroline Janney, University of Virginia
Dr. Janney will deliver the 2026 Stallworth Lecture in Southern History, based on
her recent book End of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army After Appomattox
7 p.m. | Laidlaew Recital Hall
Dr. Michael Fitzgerald, The KKK in Alabama
Co-sponsored with the McCall Library of the University of South Alabama. Dr. Michael Fitzgerald, retired faculty from St Olaf College in Minnestoa, will discuss his new book based on one family's involvement in the KKK after the civil war, drawn from the Pickens Papers collections held in the McCall Library at the University of South Alabama . The book is entitled Shades of Complicity: One Family's Experience of Klan Paticipation (LSU Press, 2026).
Marx Library
