Video on Butchart’s work featured on UNC Press blog
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A video on the research of Ronald E. Butchart, professor and head of elementary and social studies education in the University of Georgia College of Education , is featured on a University of North Carolina Press blog.
Butchart is widely recognized for his work on freedmen’s teachers in the South after the Civil War and on the history of black education in the U.S. Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876, which is now available in a new paperback edition (UNC Press).
Butchart’s book and the pathbreaking research that inspired it have earned awards including the 2011 Outstanding Book Award from the History of Education Society, the 2012 William A. Owens Award from the University of Georgia Research Foundation, and Honorable Mention for the 2011 Avery O. Craven Award, given by the Organization of American Historians.
This video was produced by the University of Georgia Research Foundation.