![]() Stahlman Professor of American History at Vanderbilt University. “I hope readers will understand some of the violence and themes of domination that often lie at the heart of American freedom,” said Cowie, who is currently the James G. ![]() ![]() Throughout his chronicles, Cowie interrogates the meaning of freedom, and how it has been shaped and influenced by white supremacy. Cowie examines the relationship between white Americans and the federal government over the course of the early 19th Century to the modern age, and how the concept of freedom was used by white Americans to seize lands owned by Native Americans, support secession, resist reconstruction and the New Deal and fight against the civil rights movement. ![]() Jefferson Cowie, another UC Berkeley alum, regarded as one of the country’s preeminent historians, was recognized with the Pulitzer Prize for history for “Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power.” In his book, Cowie focuses his lens entirely on Barbour County, Alabama, the birthplace of former Alabama governor and mid-20th Century segregationist George Wallace. ![]()
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