I posted on this back at the beginning of December, but I thought that I'd post another reminder now…
Emory University's transforming community project, run by history professor Leslie Harris, has a very exciting conference coming up in just under a month — February 3 to 6 — on slavery and universities. There will be much talk about the antebellum university — about proslavery (and antislavery) thought at universities and universities' ownership of human beings, as well as accounting for that legacy. Here is the program. President Ruth Simmons of Brown University will deliver the keynote and there is an exciting line-up of historians talking about work at many different institutions. The conference homepage is here and the conference poster is here.
Because last time I used a WPA photograph of Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama, I'll use a different image this time — another WPA photograph — but of a school that no longer exists: the Hillsborough, North Carolina Military Academy.