Image: News from The Willson Center: Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era in the department of history, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars grant for his book project The Original Black Panther: Prince Rivers and the Lost City of Hamburg, a biography of Rivers (1824–1887) who was by turns a slave, color sergeant of the First South Carolina Volunteer Division of the Union Army, a South Carolina state legislator, and mayor of Hamburg, SC. "I'm really excited to work full time recovering Prince Rivers's remarkable life," Berry said. "I discovered him while working on a project with the UGA DigiLab devoted to death records. The more I dug the more I came to realize that he is one of the most consequential Americans about whom Americans know nothing." The Public Scholars grant provides $60,000 over the course of one year for research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to the book's creation and publication. Go to The Willson Center site to read the rest of their article: https://willson.uga.edu/uga-history-professor-stephen-berry-awarded-neh-grant/
