Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges
Workshop 2018

The Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC) strives to advance liberal arts education through collective efforts to support faculty research and teaching so as to enhance the overall experience of students and to develop faculty leadership.

The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation, by Stephen Haynes.
Noah’s Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery (Religion in America), by Stephen Haynes
University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War, by Alfred L. Brophy
Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics, by John Torpey
Uncivil Wars: The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery, by David Horowitz
Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South, by Mitchell Snay
Deliver us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South, by Lacy Ford
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It, by Mindy Fullilove

James C. Furman, et al., “Letter to the Citizens of the Greenville District,” Greenville, South Carolina, Southern Enterprise, 22 November 1860. Read the article.
A transcription of Julian Carr’s Silent Sam dedication speech at the University of Alabama. Read the article.
The opening convocation address by Ruth J. Simmons at Brown University, 2001. Read the article.
The full 14th Amendment. Read the article.
Carl Schurz, “The Logical Results of the War,” Speech delivered at Philadelphia, Sept. 8, 1866,” Speeches, correspondence and political papers of Carl Schurz, vol. 1, pp. 377- 416. Read the article.
The Georgetown Slavery Archive. Read the article.
The Georgetown Memory Project. Read the article.
Shared History, a film by Felicia Furman. Read the article.
The Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation Project at Sewanee. Read the article.
The Race and Racism Project at the University of Richmond. Read the article.

A clear overview of the context of the amendment’s creation by a leading scholar is Paul Finkelman, “John Bingham and the Creation of the Fourteenth Amendment,” Akron Law Review 36 (2003): 676-692. Read the essay.
An important look at the challenges of enforcing these rights can be found in: Lou Falkner Williams, “The South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials and the Enforcement of Federal Rights, 1871-1872,” Civil War History 39 (March 1993): 47-66.

Slaughterhouse Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1872)
Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883)
Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 21 Wall 162 (1874) (women’s voting/rights)
Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886) (racial discrimination)
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific R. Co., 118 U.S. 394 (1886) (corporate citizenship)

NPR “All Things Considered” Podcast “How Slavery Shaped America’s Oldest And Most Elite Colleges” September 17, 2013, with Craig Steven Wilder Listen to the podcast.
Marc Steiner Show, “Craig Steven Wilder on ‘Ebony and Ivy’” February 19, 2014- Segment 4. Listen to the podcast.
Craig Steven Wilder, an MIT African American Historian, on his book Ebony and Ivory (2013) Listen to the podcast.
NPR “Planet Money” Podcast “Episode 766: Georgetown, Louisiana, Part One.” Listen to the podcast.
NPR “Planet Money” Podcast “Episode 767: Georgetown, Louisiana, Part Two.” Listen to the podcast.

Essay from The Chronicle of Higher Education
Essay from The New York Times
Brief article on American Truth and Reconciliation Movements.
An interview on truth and reconciliation in the United States.
A short piece “in praise of forgetting.”
A Washington Post article about Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Virginia.
A New York Times article on Charleston’s apology for slavery.
A University College of London collection of pieces on British slavery legacies. Read the article.
Information on the “Unsung Founders Memorial” at UNC, Chapel Hill. Read the article.
A Marist Poll article on slavery reparations in America. Read the article.
A Rasmussen Poll on slavery reparations. Read the article.
A reparations guide published by “Coming to the Table.” Read the article.
A Washington Post article on birthright and citizenship. Read the article.
A New York Times article on Trump, citizenship, and the politics of fear. Read the article.
A Constitution Society article on the 14th Amendment in the context of the Constitution. Read the article.
A Daily Mail article on the Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis windows in a Virginia Church. Read the article.
A New York Times article on Georgetown’s obligation to their descendants. Read the article.
Reformed Answers article on, “Millennial Views” in Christianity. Read the article.
Brown University biography of Francis Wayland, a former President of Brown University. Read the article.
South Carolina Encyclopedia article on James Henley Thornwell. Read the article.
South Carolina Department of Archives and History article on Woodlands Plantation. Read the article.
Coming To The Table (CTTT) Reparations Working Group reparations guide. Read the article.
A New Orleans Advocate article on a slave trade exhibit at Whitney Plantation. Read the article.
A Vox article by Margaret Biser on slavery misunderstandings. Read the article.
The Richmond Guarantee for student researchers. Read the article.
Karen Till faculty profile. Read the article.
A Nashville Public Radio article “At A Family’s Request, Sewanee Decides To Relocate Confederate Memorial.” Read the article.

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