March 17, 2019
Assistant Professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers' book, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019) has been recommended by The New York Times as an Editors' Choice selection. Called a "taut and cogent corrective" by Times critic Parul Sehgal, Jones-Rogers' book was reviewed in depth in the Books of the Times section (Feb. 26, 2019).
