Chester M. Morgan

He graduated from University of Southern Mississippi, with a BA and M.A. in 1974, and Memphis State University, with a Ph.D. in history in 1982. He was director of the oral history program and assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi.^[1]

He taught at Delta State University.^[2]

He returned to the University of Southern Mississippi in the fall of 2009 as Professor and University Historian, and is currently finishing a Centennial History of the university.^[3]

• 1986 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, for Redneck Liberal

• Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal. LSU Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-8071-2432-1.
• Dearly bought, deeply treasured: the University of Southern Mississippi, 1912-1987. University Press of Mississippi. 1987. ISBN 978-0-87805-307-0.
• From Poverty to Promise: Mississippi 1917–1945, Mississippi Department of Archives and History^[4]