Dr. Max Grivno will present The American Revolution in the Gulf South on Monday April 20 at 6pm at Mississippi University for Women.

The history of the American Revolution along the Gulf South is seldom told. Although most of the Europeans who called the region were sympathetic to the British — or at least hoped to remain neutral — the conflict soon engulfed the territory of what would, in time, become Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.

Dr. Grivno will examine how the American Revolution transformed the Gulf South. How the Americans, British and Spanish vied for control of the Mississippi River and Gulf seaports, and how the Choctaws and Chickasaws struggled to preserve their homelands by courting the rival powers. He will discusses the consequences of the Revolution for the people of the Gulf Coast. In the aftermath of the war, the Spanish and the Americans vied to control Natchez and the territory around present-day Vicksburg, while native confederacies like the Choctaw and Chickasaw grappled with the rising power of the United States.​

Dr. Grivno is a Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. In 2011, he published Gleanings of Freedom: Free Labor and Slavery along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860. Dr. Grivno’s teaching interests include the Old South, slavery, labor history and Mississippi history.​

For more information, call the MUW Department of History, Political Science, and Geography at (662) 329-7390.