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Jill Ogline Titus

Associate Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and co-coordinator of the college's Public History minor.

Education
BA Taylor University, 2001
MA University of Massachusetts, 2003
PhD University of Massachusetts, 2007

Jill Ogline Titus is associate director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and co-coordinator of the college’s Public History minor. She is the author of Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town (University of North Carolina Press,October 2021), winner of the 2022 Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians. Her first book, Brown’s Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County (UNC Press, 2011), was a finalist for the Library of Virginia Literary Award. 

Publications & Programs

Black Americans, World War II, and the Civil Rights Movement

ONLINE LECTURE

Black Americans, WWII, and the Civil Rights Movement

FREE

Rethinking the Mid-20th Century Black Freedom Struggle Square

LIVE ONLINE COURSE

Rethinking the Mid-20th Century Black Freedom Struggle 

$295

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