Production - Take On The South

Dr. Edgar, Dr. Peter A. Coclanis, Associate Provost, International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Dr. Stanley Engerman, John Munro Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics and Professor of History, University of Rochester, will debate “Would Southern Slavery Have Survived the Civil War?”

TV Air Date: Wednesday - November 25, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Dr. Edgar, Dr. Peter A. Coclanis, Associate Provost, International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Dr. Stanley Engerman, John Munro Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics and Professor of History, University of Rochester, will debate “Would Southern Slavery Have Survived the Civil War?”

Dr. Peter Coclanis

Associate Provost, International Affairs
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Peter A. Coclanis is Associate Provost for International Affairs and Albert R. Newsome Professor of History at UNC-Chapel Hill. After taking his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1984, he joined the faculty at Chapel Hill and has been there ever since. He specializes in southern, Southeast Asian, and international economic and business history and has published widely in these fields. His first book, The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (Oxford University Press, 1989) won the Society of American Historians' Allan Nevins Prize. He is currently completing a book, based on his 2006 Averitt Lectures at Georgia Southern University, entitled Home and the World: Perspectives on the Economic History of the American South (University of Georgia Press, 2010).

Stanley L. Engerman

Professor of Economics and Professor of History
University of Rochester

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Stanley L. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester, where he has taught since 1963 after one year as Assistant Professor at Yale University. He received a B.S. (in accounting) from the School of Commerce at New York University in 1952, an M.B.A from NYU's Graduate School of Business in 1958, and a Ph.D. in economics from The Johns Hopkins University in 1962.

Engerman has been past president of the Economic History Association and the Social Science History Association. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African - American Research at Harvard University. In addition, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economics Association and has been Pitt Professor of American Institutions at Cambridge University.

Author of Slavery, Emancipation and Freedom: Comparative Studies (the Fleming Lectures), he is co-author (with Robert W. Fogel) of Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, and (with Lance E. Davis) Naval Blockades in Peace and War. He is also co-editor of, among other works, The Reinterpretation of American Economic History (with Robert W. Fogel); A Historical Guide to World Slavery (with Seymour Drescher) and the 3-volume Cambridge Economic History of the United States (with Robert Gallman). Currently in progress are the 4-volume Cambridge History of World Slavery (with David Eltis), and Factor Endowments, Institutions, and Economic Growth (with Kenneth Sokoloff). He has also been author or co-author of over 100 articles dealing with slavery, abolition, and world economic history.

Dr. Edgar, Dr. Peter A. Coclanis, Associate Provost, International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Dr. Stanley Engerman, John Munro Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics and Professor of History, University of Rochester, will debate “Would Southern Slavery Have Survived the Civil War?”

Harry Watson, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Center for the Study of the American South
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fitzhugh Brundage, Ph.D.
William B. Umstead Professor of History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Larry Hudson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
University of Rochester

Dr. Edgar, Dr. Peter A. Coclanis, Associate Provost, International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Dr. Stanley Engerman, John Munro Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics and Professor of History, University of Rochester, will debate “Would Southern Slavery Have Survived the Civil War?”

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Dr. Edgar, Dr. Trudier Harris, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Dr. Noel Polk, Professor Emeritus, Mississippi State University, will debate which Southern novel has been the most influential.

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TV Air Date: Wednesday - May 13, 2009 at 8:00 pm

Dr. Edgar, Dr. Trudier Harris, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Dr. Noel Polk, Professor Emeritus, Mississippi State University, will debate which Southern novel has been the most influential.

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Dr. Trudier Harris

Professor of English and Comparative Literature
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Trudier Harris is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches African American literature and folklore. She earned her B.A. from Stillman College and her M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1973) from The Ohio State University. She taught at the College of William and Mary for six years before joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her books include From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature (1982), Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals (1984), Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin (1985, which won the 1987 College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award), Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison (1991), The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan (1996), Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature (2001), and South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature (2002). Her memoir, Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South, appeared from Beacon Press in 2003, and her latest book, The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South, is forthcoming from LSU Press in June 2009.

Dr. Noel Polk

Professor Emeritus
Mississippi State University

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Dr. Noel Polk is a native Mississippian. BA MA Mississippi College 1965, 1966. PhD. U of South Carolina 1970. English Professor at University of Southern Mississippi for 27 years before moving to Mississippi State University in 2004 to teach and to edit The Mississippi Quarterly. Professor Emeritus as of August 31, 2008, but retains the editorship of The Mississippi Quarterly. 81-82 was Professeur Associé at the University of Strasbourg, France; Spring 1996 Professeur Invité at the University of Brittany 2, in Rennes France; shorter teaching stints at universities in Poland and Japan. Have published and lectured widely on Faulkner, Welty, and other southern writers throughout this country, Europe, Japan, and the former Soviet Union. Major publications include William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun: A Textual and Critical STudy; Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner; Eudora Welty A Bibliography of Her Work; Outside the Southern Myth; and Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition.

Dr. Edgar, Dr. Trudier Harris, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Dr. Noel Polk, Professor Emeritus, Mississippi State University, will debate which Southern novel has been the most influential.

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Thanks for voting in our online poll, and letting us know which Southern novel you felt was the most influential. Please see the final results below:

How were the top 20 novels selected?

Profs. Polk, Harris and six faculty members from USC's Institute for Southern Studies were asked to submit fifteen Southern novels they considered to be the most influential. This poll lists the 20 novels mentioned the most times.

Dr. Edgar, Dr. Trudier Harris, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Dr. Noel Polk, Professor Emeritus, Mississippi State University, will debate which Southern novel has been the most influential.

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The one thing political pundits all seem to agree on this election season is that this presidential contest is one for the ages. With no incumbent, wars on two fronts, and a problem-plagued economy, Americans find their attention increasingly riveted to the presidential campaign.

So, in 2008, the question remains: Does the road to the White House run through the South?

That was the subject of debate recently at ETV between noted scholars/authors, Earl Black and Thomas Schaller.

Black is a political science professor at Rice University, and the co-author of “Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics,” and Schaller is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and author of “Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South.”

Their debate, moderated by noted SC historian Dr. Walter Edgar, host of “Walter Edgar’s Journal” on ETV Radio, and history professor and the Director of the Institute for Southern Studies at USC, airs on ETV on Thursday, Oct. 16 from 9-10 p.m.

TV Air Date: Thursday - October 16, 2008 at 9:00 pm

The one thing political pundits all seem to agree on this election season is that this presidential contest is one for the ages. With no incumbent, wars on two fronts, and a problem-plagued economy, Americans find their attention increasingly riveted to the presidential campaign.

So, in 2008, the question remains: Does the road to the White House run through the South?

That was the subject of debate recently at ETV between noted scholars/authors, Earl Black and Thomas Schaller.

Black is a political science professor at Rice University, and the co-author of “Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics,” and Schaller is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and author of “Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South.”

Their debate, moderated by noted SC historian Dr. Walter Edgar, host of “Walter Edgar’s Journal” on ETV Radio, and history professor and the Director of the Institute for Southern Studies at USC, airs on ETV on Thursday, Oct. 16 from 9-10 p.m.

Thomas Schaller

Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Maryland Baltimore County

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Dr. Thomas F. Schaller (Ph.D., North Carolina, 1997) is associate professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He teaches courses in American government, including the U.S. presidency, Congress, and interest group behavior. He is author of Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, and co-author of Devolution and Black State Legislators: Challenges and Choices in the Twenty-First Century. A twice-monthly political columnist for the Baltimore Sun and contributing writer for Salon, he has published commentaries in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The New York Daily News, The American Prospect, and The New Republic, and has appeared on ABC News, The Colbert Report, MSNBC, National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and “Talk of the Nation” programs, The Tavis Smiley Show, and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. Schaller has given lectures on American politics in Brazil, Egypt, India, Italy, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey on behalf of the U.S. State Department.

Earl Black

Political Science Professor
Rice University

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Earl Black is Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Political Science at Rice University. His field is American politics, with special attention to the changing politics of the American South. In partnership with his twin brother, Merle Black of Emory University, he has written three books for Harvard University Press on southern politics: POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN THE SOUTH (1987), THE VITAL SOUTH: HOW PRESIDENTS ARE ELECTED (1992), and THE RISE OF SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS (2002). THE RISE OF SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS was chosen by THE ECONOMIST as one of the best books published in 2002. His new book, co-authored with Merle Black, is DIVIDED AMERICA: THE FEROCIOUS POWER STRUGGLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS. This book focuses on voters, parties, and elections according to regional and national trends. Simon & Schuster published DIVIDED AMERICA in March 2007. DIVIDED AMERICA was selected by CHOICE Magazine in 2008 as an “Outstanding Academic Book.” The paperback edition of DIVIDED AMERICA was published in March 2008. Over his career Black has given thousands of interviews concerning southern and national politics, including interviews with most major American newspapers and appearances on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, FOX, C-SPAN, National Public Radio, and the BBC.

The one thing political pundits all seem to agree on this election season is that this presidential contest is one for the ages. With no incumbent, wars on two fronts, and a problem-plagued economy, Americans find their attention increasingly riveted to the presidential campaign.

So, in 2008, the question remains: Does the road to the White House run through the South?

That was the subject of debate recently at ETV between noted scholars/authors, Earl Black and Thomas Schaller.

Black is a political science professor at Rice University, and the co-author of “Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics,” and Schaller is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and author of “Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South.”

Their debate, moderated by noted SC historian Dr. Walter Edgar, host of “Walter Edgar’s Journal” on ETV Radio, and history professor and the Director of the Institute for Southern Studies at USC, airs on ETV on Thursday, Oct. 16 from 9-10 p.m.

The one thing political pundits all seem to agree on this election season is that this presidential contest is one for the ages. With no incumbent, wars on two fronts, and a problem-plagued economy, Americans find their attention increasingly riveted to the presidential campaign.

So, in 2008, the question remains: Does the road to the White House run through the South?

That was the subject of debate recently at ETV between noted scholars/authors, Earl Black and Thomas Schaller.

Black is a political science professor at Rice University, and the co-author of “Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics,” and Schaller is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and author of “Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South.”

Their debate, moderated by noted SC historian Dr. Walter Edgar, host of “Walter Edgar’s Journal” on ETV Radio, and history professor and the Director of the Institute for Southern Studies at USC, airs on ETV on Thursday, Oct. 16 from 9-10 p.m.

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