On April 1-2, 2011, the History Department at NC State University hosted "Death, 'tis a melancholy day": Dying, Mourning, and Memory in the American South," an interdisciplinary conference that provided an exchange of ideas and perspectives on issues related to death and dying in the American South.
Session 1: Southern Deaths in Local Contexts
Session 2: The Politics of Southern Death
Session 3: Racial Constructions of Death in the Twentieth-Century South
Session 4: Social Structures of Death in the Early South
Session 5: Suicide in the Victorian South
Session 6: Grief in the Antebellum and Civil War South
Session 7: Death, Memory, and Southern Landscapes
