UNC Charlotte Department of History

03/28/2022

Tune in to watch our own Dr. Benny Andres participate in the Brown Bag "Healthcare in Latin America: History, Society, Culture" on Wednesday April 6 at noon.

03/17/2022

Our own Dr. Steve Sabol weighs in on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In the early morning hours of Thursday, Feb. 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” in neighboring Ukraine. This invasion has become the most serious and devastating conflict in Europe since World War II, leading to the death of civilians and causing millions...

03/16/2022

You're invited to attend an afternoon lecture by Dr. Caroline Grego, Visiting Assistant Professor at Queens University, on her forthcoming book "Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South." Join us next Wednesday, March 23rd, 2:30pm in Garinger 239 Seminar Room. Her talk is sponsored by the Graduate Program in History.

02/28/2022

"It’s just a really deep anxiety and fear"

02/28/2022

UNC Charlotte history major Matt Thacker had to flee Ukraine after the Russian invasion.

"It’s just a really deep anxiety and fear"

01/28/2022

Our colleague Dr. Erika Edwards will lead the (virtual) "Personally Speaking" event on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. Join us as she delves into the intimate lives of black women, tracing the origins of the popular mischaracterization of a "black disappearance" and demonstrating how these women shaped their own destinies. For more info and how to register, see

Erika Denise Edwards Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic Virtual Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 7 p.m.    Register for the event Black erasure can be seen all around us and remains a bedrock of systematic racism. The refusal to see Black lives that mat...

01/26/2022

Graduate student Kevin Donaldson's work in preserving the Cedar Grove Cemetery made news on WFAE yesterday. Good job, Kevin!

Decades ago, Cedar Grove Cemetery was described as a serene, peaceful final resting place for many Black Charlotteans. But the property has been largely ignored after its last known owner died in 1972. Toppled headstones, trash and overgrown trees cover the cemetery, making it difficult to walk the....

10/12/2021

Dr. Sonya Ramsey will present, "Building the 'Block': Dr. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, Charismatic Advocacy, Black Studies, and the promise of the desegregated University," at the AFRS Bertha Maxwell-Roddey 13th Annual Lecture at 4pm on Oct 27. Register at

Speaker Dr. Sonya Ramsey Building the "Block': Dr. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, Charismatic Advocacy, Black Studies, and the promise of the desegregated University.

10/12/2021

Congratulations to Dr. Karen Cox for winning the Michael V.R. Thomason Book Award given by the Gulf South Historical Association!

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to pre...

09/02/2021

The State of Virginia won its case to take down the Lee Monument in Richmond, VA, the largest and most iconic of Confederate monuments outside of Stone Mountain. Our own Dr. Karen Cox was one of the historians who joined the state's amicus brief. Well done, Karen!

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday that the state can remove an iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a prominent spot in its capital city, saying “values change and public policy changes too” in a democracy.

08/20/2021

Congratulations to Dr. Erika Edwards for having her book, "Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic" (University of Alabama Press), selected as a finalist for the 2021 Harriet Tubman Prize!

August 19, 2021—The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture announced today the three finalists for the 2021 Harriet Tubman Prize. The award honors the best nonfiction book on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slave...

07/07/2021

This month in NC history... https://www.ncdcr.gov/blog/2014/07/02/the-sable-orator-and-poet-george-moses-horton?fbclid=IwAR1iwwHMyQxIw6cUzfBhgY_3Ftuy48meX86aczHDMh_Ai7PetKiqpIN7tX4

The “Sable Orator” and Poet, George Moses Horton Jul 2, 2016 On July 2, 1829, Raleigh printer Joseph Gales published George Moses Horton’s The Hope of Liberty, the first book by an African American in the South. Horton’s life story, and how he became a published poet while enslaved, is compe...