Invited Presenter

March 1999 “ The Segregated South,” Invited Participant to Conference, Sidney Sussez College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England

June 1994 “Xenophobia, Racism, Nativism and National Identity and the United States,” Invited Participant in Seminar, German Historical Institute, Washington DC

April 1994 “Black Responses to Mob Violence,” Invited Presenter, Conference on American Civil Rights, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Invited Panelist

June 1997 “Mules, Migration, and Inland Rice: An Assemblage on the Modern South,” Chair and Commentator, Agricultural History Society Symposium, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

May 1996 “Contexts and Consequences of Lynching,” Commentator, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History Convention, Charleston, S. C.

October 1996 “Capital Punishment and Social Control in Europe and America,” Commentator, American Society for Legal History, Richmond, VA.

January 1996 “Lynching in the Postbellum South,” Commentator, American Historical Association Conference, Atlanta

Moderator

October 1997 “Extraordinary Alliances: Cross-Cultural Politics in Turn-of-theCentury New York City,” Chair, American Studies Association Convention, Washington, D.C.

October 1995 “Lynching in the Postbellum South,” Chair and Commentator, American Society of Criminology Conference, Boston

Presenter

November 2000 “Meta Warrick’ s 1907 “Negro Tableaux” and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory,” “Woman’ s World, 1880-1920: From Object to Subject,” Reynolda House Symposium, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC.

April 2000 “ Tourism and the Pursuit of Authentic History in the South 1900- 1940,” at Plantations of the Mind: Marketing Myths and Memories in the Heritage Tourism Industry, Charleston, S. C.

April 2000 “ The Faith that the Dark Past Has Taught Us: The Practice of African American Memory in the South, 1865-1930,” The Citadel Conference on the South, Charleston, S. C.

March 1997 “White Women and Memory,” Second Women and Historical Preservation Convention, Mesa, Arizona

October 1994 “A Freer, Fuller, Richer Life for Women: The Place of Women in the Ruskin Colony, 1894-1901,” Presenter, Communal Societies Conference, Oneida, New York

October 1993 “Patterns of Black Responses to White Mob Violence,” Presenter, Social Science History Association, Washington D.C.

October 1993 “A Utopian Frontier in the New South?” Presenter, Society for Utopian Studies Convention, St. Louis, MO.

April 1990 “Comparative Regional Approaches to White Violence and Black Responses in the American South, 1880-1930,” Presenter, Organization of American Historians Convention, Washington D.C.

October 1989 “Southern Mob Violence and the Social Sciences,” Presenter, Social Science History Association Convention, Washington D.C.

Invited Commentator

February 2002 “ National Landmarks and Virginia’ s Heroes of Two Wars,” Virginia’s Civil War and Aftermath: The Douglas Southall Freeman and Southern Intellectual History Conferences, University of Richmond

November, 2000 “ Historical Memory in the Era of the Civil Rights Movement,” Southern Historical Association conference, Louisville, Ky.

April 2000 “ Utopian Socialism in the Deep South,” Georgia Association of Historians, Albany, Ga. April 1999 “ Violence and Vigilance in 20th Century Florida,” Chair and Commentator, Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, Daytona Beach, Florida

November 1997 “Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates,” Chair, Southern Historical Association Convention, Atlanta, Georgia

June 1997 “Sexual Violence and Intimidation,” Southern Association of Women Historians Convention, Charleston, South Carolina

November 1996 “State and Civil Society in the American South and South Africa,” Chair and Commentator, Southern Historical Association Convention, Little Rock, AK.

November 1993 “Murder in Faulkner’s Oxford,” Commentator, Southern Historical Association Convention, Orlando, FL.

Presenter

October 2000 “ Should Demographers be allowed to Study Lynchings?” Invited Presenter, Southern Demographers Association conference, New Orleans, La.

November 1991 “Varn Mill Riot: Violence and Justice in the New South,” Presenter, Southern Historical Association Convention, Fort Worth, Texas.

April 1989 “Towards the Twentieth Century: Lynching in the New South,” Presenter, Southeastern Society of Nineteenth Century Studies Convention, Atlanta, Georgia.

October 2001 “ Race, Religion, and Nationalism” Colloquium, Amherst College

April 1998 “ History, Memory and Southern Identity: The cul-de-sac of Southern Distinctiveness,” History Graduate Student Seminar, Duke University

April 2002 “Meta Warrick’s 1907 ‘ Negro Tableaux’ and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory,” Annual Meeting of the Georgia Association of Historians

November 2001 “Images of Lynching,” Chicago Historical Society, sponsored by the Chicago Humanities Festival

June 2001 “Meta Warrick’ s 1907 ‘Negro Tableaux’ and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory,” St. George Tucker Society Meeting, Atlanta, Ga.

April 1997 “The Partnership of Professional Historians and Antiquarians in the South, 1890-1920,” Keynote address, Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina

November 2001 “ Arguing about the Civil War: White and Black Southerners and the Civil War,” Honors Program lecture, Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, Fl.

October 1999 “ Memory, Race, and Southern Identity,” Annual B. F. Hall lecture, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

October 1999 “ Black Memory in the Age of Jim Crow,” Department of Religion, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

November 1998 “ Memory, White Women, and the Battle of Nashville Monument,” Battle of Nashville Monument Symposium, Nashville, Tennessee

March 1997 “The Problem of Memory in the Modern South,” Public Lecture, the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia

January 1997 “Professional Historians and Antiquarians in the New South, 1890- 1920,” North Carolina State University History Department Seminar, Raleigh, North Carolina

November 1996 “Embalming the Past in the Amber of History: Archives and Historical Memory in the South, 1890-1920,” Public Lecture, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina

May 1996 “No Deed But Memory: Historical Memory in the Modern South,” Public Lecture, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle, North Carolina

April 1996 “Thinking About White Women and Public Memory in the South, 1865-1920,” Public lecture, Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

November 1995 “Historical Memory in the Modern South,” Public lecture, University of North Carolina, Wilmington October 1995 “Historical Memory and Museums in the Modern South,” Public lecture, Historic Lexington Foundation, Lexington, Virginia

October 1995 “Memory: Southern Social and Cultural Comparisons,” Commentator, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

March 1993 “Black Protest and White Violence,” Public Lecture, College of Charleston

May 1992 “Black Protest and Southern Mob Violence, 1880-1930,” Public Lecture, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia; Darien, Georgia, and Beach Institute, Savannah Georgia.