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The Southern Historical Association is a professional academic organization of historians focusing on the history of the Southern United States. It was organized on November 2, 1934. Its objectives are the promotion of interest and research in Southern history, the collection and preservation of the South 's historical records, and the ...
The Southern Historical Society was an American organization founded to preserve archival materials related to the government of the Confederate States of America and to document the history of the American Civil War. [1][2][3] The society was organized on May 1, 1869, in New Orleans, Louisiana. [4][3] The society published 52 volumes of its ...
The Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH) is a professional organization in the United States founded in 1970. It supports the study of women's and gender history of the American South, gives annual book and article prizes, and provides networking opportunities for its members, especially at its triennial conference.
The Southern Historical Association has established the C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize, awarded annually to the best dissertation on Southern history. There is a Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Chair of History at Yale; it is now held by southern historian Glenda Gilmore. (Peter was Woodward's son, who died at the age of 26 in 1969. [26])
From the Library of Congress Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs. The United Confederate Veterans (UCV, or simply Confederate Veterans) was an American Civil War veterans' organization headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was organized on June 10, 1889, by ex- soldiers and sailors of the Confederate States of America ...
The National Grange, a.k.a. The Grange, officially named The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, is a social organization in the United States that encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well-being of the community and agriculture. [1] The Grange, founded after the Civil War in 1867, is the ...
Southern History Association. The Southern History Association was a short-lived professional American organization of historians who studied the American South. The organization was founded in 1896, at the time of the Southern Renaissance, when a need for professionalization among historians in the United States gave rise to a more scientific ...
Don Higginbotham. Don Higginbotham (May 22, 1931 – June 22, 2008) was an American historian and Dowd Professor of History and Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A leading scholar of George Washington, he was a pioneering practitioner of the “new” military history and an expert on colonial and ...