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Historian Loren Schweninger to Give
Research Excellence Lecture Feb. 26

GREENSBORO – Historian Dr. Loren Schweninger will deliver the annual Research Excellence Lecture at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26, in the Maple Room of Elliott University Center at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

A specialist in American, African-American history and slavery, Schweninger will give a lecture titled “In Search of the Promised Land: A Black Family and the Old South.” He was the faculty recipient of the UNCG Research Excellence Award for 2002. Winners of the awards present lectures on subjects in their areas of expertise. The event is open to the public at no charge and is sponsored by the Office of the Associate Provost for Research.  A reception will follow.

A faculty member at UNCG since 1971, Schweninger was recently promoted to the endowed Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professorship at UNCG. Schweninger has written several books on slavery, including “Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915,” which received the Rudwick Award. With historian John Hope Franklin, he wrote the book, “Plantation Rebels: Runaway Slaves, 1790-1860.” He holds the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. He has served on the N.C. State Historical Records Advisory Board.

His slavery research has received national exposure in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, New York Times and in numerous other newspapers. He currently holds grants totaling more than $320,000 from a national foundation and two federal agencies to continue his research on slavery, “Race, Slavery and Free Blacks: Petitions to Southern Legislatures and County Courts, 1776-1867.”

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