Scholar to Talk About Rise of Southern Religious Conservatism at UA’s Gorgas Library

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Paul Harvey, professor of history at The University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, will present the lecture “The Evolution of Southern Religious Conservatism” at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, at Gorgas Library, room 205, on The University of Alabama campus.

Harvey holds a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley and researches and writes in the field of post-Civil War American History. His particular interests include Southern history, American religious history, popular culture, war and society, and the history of American music.

He is the author of “Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925,” published in 1997 by the University of North Carolina Press, and more recently “Freedom’s Coming: Religious Cultures and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era.”

He also runs a Web blog specifically devoted to American religious history at http://usreligion.blogspot.com.

The UA history department, the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South and UA Libraries are sponsoring the lecture. The history department is a part of UA’s College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest liberal arts college in the state. Students from the College have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the USA Today Academic All American Team.