<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/my-history-degree-from-f-m-provided-the-foundation-for-who-i-am-today.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>01/24/2023</pubDate><title>'My History Degree From F&amp;M Provided the Foundation for Who I Am Today'</title><description>It was at F&amp;M as a history major and Africana studies minor that Hilary Green '99, the James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College, began honing her interests in the intersections of race, class, and gender in African American history, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, Civil War memory, the U.S. South, 19th-century America, and the Black Atlantic.</description><author>Alicia Morrissey</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/987882321136758337-professorhilary-green-fordavidsonjournal-011.0.0.680.680.full.jpg" alt="Hilary Green '99"/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>Africana Studies</tag><tag>Alumni</tag><tag>History</tag></tags></item>