Author or editor of twenty-three books, mainly about the South, sociologist John Shelton Reed helped to found the University of North Carolina’s Center for the Study of the American South and was a founding coeditor of Southern Cultures. In his lecture he will bring to life people and places before and during the Jazz Age in New Orleans. FREE.

Part of the symposium, It’s a Southern Thing: Culture in the South in the Early Twentieth Century, presented by Augusta Museum of History, the Center for the Study of Georgia History, Historic Augusta, Inc., the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, and the Morris Museum of Art. The symposium is made possible in part by funding from the Center for the Study of Georgia History, the Augusta Town Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia, and Georgia Humanities.