The WSU Department of History presents a talk by Rebecca Miller Davis, assistant teaching professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 3, at the Ulrich Museum of Art. A reception will precede the talk at 5:30 p.m. Her talk is titled "Dixiecrats, Dissenting Delegates, and the Dying Democratic Party: The Southern Right Turn from Roosevelt to Johnson, and Beyond." Davis is a historian of the 20th century, focusing mainly on race and media in the Jim Crow South. Her teaching interests include modern America, African American history, media and propaganda, and the New South.
