Porter L. Fortune, Jr. Symposium
The Porter L. Fortune, Jr., History Symposium began as a conference on southern history in 1975. In 1983, it was named for Porter L. Fortune, Jr., chancellor emeritus, to honor his contributions to the success of the symposium. Past events have examined topics such as religion in the South, medicine and technology in the Civil War, women’s history, and the place of the United States South in the World.
The conference is held annually. It is a three day event that is free of charge and open to the general public.
Information about previous symposia can be found at this link.
Browse the contents of Porter L. Fortune, Jr. Symposium:
- 2024: Prophetic Women from a Global Perspective
- 2019: The Construction of Racial Slavery in the Atlantic World
- 1999: The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights-Era South
- 1998: Early Social History of the Southeastern Indians, 1526-1715
- 1997: Gender and the Southern Body Politic
- 1996: The South in the Caribbean
- 1994: Is There a Southern Political Tradition?
- 1993: The New Regionalism
- 1991: W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South, After Fifty Years
- 1988: War and Southern Society
- 1986: Society in the Colonial South
- 1984: Religion in the South
- 1982: Sex, Race and the Role of Women in the South
- 1981: The Confederacy, The Old South in the Crucible of War
- 1980: The Indian Experience in the Southeast
- 1979: When the South Was West, The Old Southwest, 1780-1840
- 1978: Have We Overcome? Relations Since Brown
- 1977: Race Relations in the South, 1890-1945
- 1976: What was Freedom's Price?
- 1975: The Slave Experience in America, a Bicentennial