| 2012 Mahan Lecture - Dr. Gary Gerstle |
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“Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, and Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free: The Alabama Immigration Law in Historical Perspective.”
Dr. Gary Gerstle, the James G. Stahlman Professor of American History
and professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, was the
guest lecturer for the 2012 University of South Alabama Howard F. Mahan
Lecture Series. Dr. Gerstle's lecture was entitled, “Give Me Your Tired,
Your Poor, and Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free: The Alabama
Immigration Law in Historical Perspective.”
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| A video file for the lecture is located below. |
| 2012 Howard F. Mahan Lecture from isabel machado on Vimeo. |
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| 2011 Stallworth lecture - Dr. Jacquelyn D. Hall |
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“Longer, Broader, Deeper: Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement and the Resistance to It”
Dr. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, the Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was the guest
lecturer for the 2011 University of South Alabama N. Jack Stallworth
Lecture Series. Dr. Hall's Lecture was entitled, “Longer, Broader,
Deeper: Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement and the Resistance to It." |
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| A video file for the lecture is located below. |
| 2011 N. Jack Stallworth Lecture from isabel machado on Vimeo. |
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| 2011 Mahan Lecture - Dr. Mary Roldan |
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| Dr. Mary Roldan, The Dorothy Epstein Professor of Latin American History at Hunter College, City University of New York, was be the guest lecturer for the 2011 University of South Alabama Howard F. Mahan Lecture Series. Roldan lectured at USA on “Mobilizing the Airwaves: Radio, Violence, and Persuasion in Colombia, 1944-1962.” |
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| A video file for the lecture is located below. |
2011 Howard F. Mahan Lecture from USA History Department on Vimeo. |
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| 2010 Stallworth lecture - Dr. James Cobb |
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| The University of South Alabama department of history hosted the 4th annual N. Jack Stallworth Lecture featuring Dr. James Cobb in the John W. Laidlaw Performing Arts Center on the USA campus. Dr. James Cobb spoke on, “The New American: The South and the Nation Since World War II.” |
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| A video file for the lecture is located below. |
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2010 Stallworth Lecture from USA History Department on Vimeo. |
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| 2010 Mahan Lecture - Dr. Susan M. Reverby |
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| In 2010, The University of South Alabama department of history in the College of Arts and Sciences hosted the 10th annual Howard F. Mahan Lecture Series featuring Dr. Susan M. Reverby, the Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and professor of women’s and gender studies at Wellesley College. |
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| A video file for the lecture is located below. |
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2010 Mahan symposium from USA History Department on Vimeo. |
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| 2009 Stallworth lecture - Dr. Anthony J. Badger |
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| In September 2009, the University of South Alabama Department of History hosted its third annual N. Jack Stallworth lecture in southern history. Dr. Anthony J. Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History and Master of Clare College at the University of Cambridge, spoke on "The New Deal and the Creation of the Modern South." |
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| An audio file of the 2009 Stallworth lecture is available below. For more information on Professor Badger and the Stallworth lecture series, see the 2009 program. |
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| 2007 Mahan symposium |
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| In 2007, the Department of History, in collaboration with the Journal of American History, hosted its second Mahan symposium, named for Howard Mahan, the founding chair of the department. Scholars from across the nation came to Mobile to participate in lectures and panels to reexamine the history of the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of one of the country's deadliest natural disasters. The December 2007 Journal of American History published a series of papers resulting from the symposium. |
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| At the conclusion of the four-day event, all panelists joined in a final roundtable discussion: |
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| 2007 Howard F. Mahan symposium from USA History Department on Vimeo. |
