News and Upcoming Events
Morris honored with 2016 Breakthrough Star Award
Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism awarded 2016 Henry Howe Award of the Ohio Genealogical Society
Presenting at OAH April 10, 2016
"Decidedly the Best Anti-Slavery Field in the Country”: Oberlin, the West, and
Abolitionist Schism"
Morris to give USCB 2015 Convocation Address
Vernon Burton and I are editing an anthology of new scholarship on the Reconstruction Era, Call for Chapter Proposals here (deadline 6-15-15)
My annual lectures for UPenn/Wharton Lauder Global MBA Program, June 1, Columbia
Documentary film series on Fort Fredrick and Beaufort in Reconstruction is live
USCB hosting Phi Alpha Theta national history honor society Carolina's Regional Conference
2015 Palmetto Connections Symposium April 18, 2015
Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism featured on John Fea's blog :The Way of Improvement Leads Home
Announcing $200,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant for summer 2015 institute "America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story"
Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism now out from UNC Press!
The Great Dismal Swamp Landscape Study group webpage is now live! Click here for more information on my current major project.
"Life in the Swamp," New York Times Opinionator, October 19, 2013
J. Brent Morris teaches, writes, and lectures on slavery and antislavery in America. He is Department Chair and Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and Director of the NEH teachers' institute "America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story." He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2010, and has been awarded recent grants or fellowships from the Association for Documentary Editing, the University of South Carolina Institute for Southern Studies, the University of South Carolina Institute for African American Research, Cornell University, Oberlin College, the New York Humanities Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2014. He is also the author of Yes Lord I Know the Road: A History of African Americans and South Carolina, 1526-2008, forthcoming in February 2017 from the University of South Carolina Press. He is the author of twenty articles, reviews, and encyclopedia entries that have appeared in the New York Times, Civil War History, the Journal of African American History, Southern Studies, the South Carolina Historical Magazine, The World of the Civil War: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas,and Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America. Brent was the 2010 recipient of the South Carolina Historical Society's Malcolm C. Clark Award, the 2016 Henry Howe Award of the Ohio Genealogical Society, and is 2015-2016 University of South Carolina Breakthrough Star for Research and Scholarship.