JEFFERSON COWIE
Historian
Photo courtesy of University of West Florida
For Speaking Engagements, please contact:
Vanderbilt Office:
114B Calhoun* Hall
Vanderbilt University
EMAIL: j.cowie AT vanderbilt.edu
MAIL:
Jefferson Cowie
Department of History
227 Benson Hall
2301 Vanderbilt Place
PMB 351802
Nashville, TN 37235
*Calhoun Hall is not named after the defender of slavery, John C. Calhoun. It is named after William Henry Calhoun, a Nashville silversmith who was nonetheless a vocal champion of the Confederacy. And while we are at it, the namesake of my endowed chair, newspaper publisher James Stahlman, was instrumental in supporting segregation and getting renown civil rights leader James Lawson expelled from the Vanderbilt Divinity School in 1960. In short, there's lots of blood money involved, a problem not uncommon in academia. Vanderbilt has begun a long process of reviewing these historical legacies.
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