A University of Southern Mississippi (USM) School of Humanities faculty member and a former colleague will conduct a special history study of Natchez, Miss. and its famed Fort Rosalie military garrison and their intersection with native peoples and enslaved Blacks through the support of a $120,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Interior’s National Park Service (NPS).
Dr. Max Grivno, associate professor of history in the School of the Humanities, and Dr. John Winters, will assemble an interdisciplinary team of scholars to complete the project in the coming years. Grivno has worked previously with NPS, including from 2019-22 as co-principal investigator on the study of the Forks of the Road slave market in Natchez.
Fort Rosalie was the military garrison constructed by the French in the early 1700s and maintained by the British, the Spanish, and Americans into the early 1800s. It was the scene of the 1729 Natchez Revolt by the Natchez tribe and was a center for the economic and social life of the community for the better part of a century…