show bio Sally McMillen

Currently serving as the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History at Davidson College, Dr. Sally McMillen specializes in Southern and women's history with an emphasis on the 19th century. Dr. McMillen received her Ph.D. from Duke University and, in 2000, won the Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award. She is also the first recipient of the Boswell Family Fellowship in 2007.

Sunday Schools, Not Suffrage: Southern Women in the Post Civil War South
Date: 3/11/2008

Davidson College professor of history Dr. Sally McMillen explores black and white women’s involvement in Sunday schools in the post-Civil War South and their contributions to that institution's success. McMillen’s talk is entitled “Sunday Schools, Not Suffrage: Southern Women in the Post Civil War South.” McMillen is the author of "Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement," just released in the Oxford University Press's Pivotal Moments in American History series and "To Raise Up the South: The Sunday School in Black and White Churches, 1865-1915." This program is held in partnership with Arkansas Women's History Institute.

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