Jacquelyn Dowd HallJacquelyn Dowd Hall is Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita at UNC-Chapel Hill. She was awarded a National Humanities Medal for her efforts to deepen the nation's engagement with the humanities by "recording history through the lives of ordinary peple, and, in so doing, for making history." She is the author or coauthor of prizewinning books and articles, including Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching; Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World; and "The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past," Journal of American History. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has held numerous fellowships. Read More Read Less