Jefferson Cowie is the James G. Stahlman Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His 2023 book, Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power, focuses on one Alabama county in order to show the ways in which white Americans weaponize the concept of freedom as a means to oppress non-white others.
The Distinguished Speaker in the Humanities Series Presents a Talk by Pulitzer Prize winning Historian Jefferson Cowie, on March 28th, 5 p.m.
By David Brown, March 24, 2024
On Thursday, March 28th, at 5 p.m. in the Park Auditorium, historian Jefferson Cowie will deliver a lecture on his 2023 Pulitzer Prize winning book about freedom and oppression in American politics.
Freedom's Dominion received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in history. It has been heralded as a "fascinating book" that "illustrates the confounding interdependence of ideas about freedom and oppression in American politics" (Mia Bay) and as "a magisterial narrative history of white grievance politics" (William Sturkey). The Nation magazine has called Professor Cowie "one of our most commanding interpreters of recent American experience."
Professor Cowie's talk is sponsored by the Distinguished Speaker in the Humanities Series in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
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