Max Grivno

Max Grivno joined the history faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi in 2007 after completing his doctorate at the University of Maryland. Dr. Grivno’s first book, Gleanings of Freedom: Free Labor and Slavery along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860, was published in 2011 as part of the University of Illinois Press’s series The Working Class in American History. Grivno is currently writing From Bondage to Freedom: Slavery in Mississippi, 1690-1865. Dr. Grivno’s teaching interests include the Old South, slavery, labor history and Mississippi history.

Presentations

• Black Mississippians in the Civil War
• The American Revolution in the Gulf South
• Slavery in Antebellum Mississippi