Melissa Walker

Melissa Walker, Emerita George Dean Johnson, Jr. Professor of History at Converse College is an award-winning teacher and scholar. The author or editor of nine books on Southern and women’s history, in 2007, she was named the South Carolina Professor of the Year, by the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching and CASE. Her book “Southern Farmers and Their Stories” was awarded a prestigious Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries for its overall excellence in scholarship and its value to undergraduate students. Her first book, All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941, received the Southern Association for Women Historians’ Willie Lee Rose Prize for the best book in Southern history. Walker speaks to audiences of all ages about a wide variety of history topics.

Speakers Bureau Topics by Melissa Walker

Women and the American Revolution

Eighteenth-Century History and Culture Famous and Infamous People Revolutionary War

The Battle of Kings Mountain: First Link in a Chain

Eighteenth-Century History and Culture Revolutionary War South Carolina History and Culture Weapons and Warfare

Chaos in the Backcountry: The American Revolution as a Civil War

Eighteenth-Century History and Culture Revolutionary War South Carolina History and Culture Weapons and Warfare

From Plume Street to the Polls: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in South Carolina

South Carolina History and Culture Twentieth-Century History and Culture Voices & Votes Women's Studies

Melissa Walker

Speakers Bureau Topics by Melissa Walker

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