Center for the American Idea - Speakers

Robert F. Pace is Associate Professor of History at McMurry University, in Abilene, Texas, where he teaches classes on the Black Experience in America and the Old South, among others. He is also Senior Director of the McWhiney Foundation, a non-profit history education organization, where he directs the McWhiney Foundation Press. Dr. Pace received a Ph.D. in American history from Texas Christian University and has taught at T.C.U. and Longwood College in Virginia, before moving to Abilene. He has published numerous articles on southern agriculture and society, and he has a forthcoming book on college life in the Old South.

Lectures:
   “What They Fought For”: African-Americans at War for America
   Background to the Harlem Renaissance
    “Rebirth”: Key Figures of the Harlem Renaissance