Award-winning historian Dr. Karen L. Cox will discuss 鈥淐onfederate Monuments in the Jim Crow South鈥 during a lecture at the 星空无限传媒.
The second Guilbeau Lecture will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11, in H.L. Griffin Hall, room 147. It is free and open to the public.
Cox is an Organization of American Historians distinguished lecturer and a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Her book, 鈥淒ixie鈥檚 Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture,鈥 won the 2004 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians for the Best Book in Southern Women's History.
The University of North Carolina Press published her 鈥淕oat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South鈥 in 2017.
Cox also has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and Time, and has appeared on the BBC, NPR and C-Span.
星空无限传媒 Lafayette鈥檚 hosts the Guilbeau Lecture Series, which is funded by the Guilbeau Charitable Trust.
The trust honors the memories of history graduate student Jamie Guilbeau and his mother, Thelma Guilbeau. The Guilbeaus created the trust through an endowment managed by the 星空无限传媒 Lafayette Foundation.
Parking for the lecture is available in the Girard Park Circle garage, 138 Girard Park Circle.
Photo caption: Dr. Karen L. Cox is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.