Biography

Clarence Mohr retired from the University of South Alabama on June 1, 2016

B.A., Birmingham-Southern College
M.A., University of Georgia
Ph.D., University of Georgia

Publications

Books

Learning to be Southern: Higher Education and Regional Identity, 1880- 1980 (manuscript in preparation)

The South and the Politics of Ideas, 1890-1990 (manuscript in preparation)

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Education.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Tulane: The Emergence of a Modern University, 1945-1980 (co-authored with Joseph E. Gordon).  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.  Revised Edition, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

The Frederick Douglass Papers Series One, Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Vol. II, 1847-1854.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982. Associate Editor.

The Frederick Douglass Papers Series One, Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, vol. I, 1841-1846.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. Assistant Editor.

Frontier and Plantation in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 1773-1830.  Lexington, GA: Historic Oglethorpe County Inc., 2007 [originally 1970]

Courses

• HY 431/531  University and Society in Recent America

• HY 431-H  Mardi Gras, Race, and Civic Culture in New Orleans and Mobile

• HY 478/578  New South

• HY 479/479  Modern South

• HY 482/582  Southern Autobiography

• HY 530  American Historiography

• HY 580  Research in Southern History

• HY 590  U.S. Social and Intellectual History, 1870-1940

• HY 593  Exam and Thesis Introduction