Historical News and Notices

ABSTRACT

In cooperation and consultation with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the SHA is building a database of historical experts who can speak to issues relevant to both organizations, including the history of disenfranchisement, hate crimes, and civil rights violations against all legally protected classes in the United States. SHA 2023 CALL FOR PAPERS Over the last few years, we have witnessed the flourishing of a deep conservatism in the South, from the embrace of former U.S. president Donald J. Trump's politics of resentment, to rampant voter suppression, to negative responses to COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine recommendations, to efforts to limit what can be taught in public schools about racism, to the undermining of abortion rights and gay rights. The SHA Program Committee invites proposals that will help us understand the landscape of employment, the rural/urban divide, the state of cultural conservatism, the rise of conservative political movements, and the development of political strategies deployed by conservatives in the region. What have been the relationships between conservatism and environmental transformation (including clearance of forest land to make room for plantation agriculture, the dredging of swamps to facilitate settlement, and environmental disasters such as oil spills)?