Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University, Vernon Burton is author or editor of eight books, including In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (1985). His research and teaching interests include the American South, especially race relations, family, community, politics, religion, and the intersection of humanities and social sciences, especially humanities computing.

Lecture topics:

• Sectional Conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction: An Interpretation
• Where and How Brown v. Board Began: Two Reconstructions and Historical Memory
• The Voting Rights Act: It Must Not Have Been Humid Enough in the North
• Keeping Up with the e-Joneses: History and Information Technology, Two Worlds in Need of Each Other?
• RiverWeb (a historical, web-based, multimedia education project about the Mississippi River) at http://www.riverweb.uiuc.edu
• The Age of Lincoln

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