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David Cecelski

David Cecelski
David Cecelski is Whichard Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities at East Carolina University. He is the author of Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina and the Fate of Black Schools in the South and co-editor of Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy.

As part of the SOHP's Listening for a Change initiative, Cecelski produces the monthly interview series "Listening to History: A North Carolina Mosaic" for the Raleigh News & Observer.


Historian's Coast
Cecelski's most recent work, A Historian's Coast: Adventures into the Tidewater Past, draws on a series of essays that he published in Coastwatch, a magazine produced by the North Carolina Sea Grant Program.







Selected Oral History Publications

  • Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina and the Fate of Black Schools in the South (UNC Press, 1998)
  • A Historian's Coast: Adventures into the Tidewater Past (John H. Blair, 2000).
  • "Eddie McCoy's Struggle for Freedom," Carolina Comments [North Carolina Division of Archives and History], Vol. 46, No. 2, July 1998.
  • "If You Could Hear What I Hear," Carolina Alumni Review, Vol. 88, No. 4, July/Aug. 1999.
  • "In Praise of Home Cooking," Raleigh News & Observer, Nov. 23, 1997.
  • "Listening to History," Raleigh News & Observer, ongoing series, June 1998-present.
  • "Ordinary Sin," The Independent Weekly, Mar. 19, 1997.
  • "The Homefront's Dispossessed," Southern Exposure, Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer 1995.



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