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Feb. 16, 2007
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Professor of history gives presentation to Historical Society
  
COLUMBUS, Miss. – Dr. Edwin Combs, visiting assistant professor of history, gave a presentation to the Selma-Dallas County Historical Society in Selma, Ala.
   
The presentation, “Catesby Jones, the Selma Foundry, and New Perspectives on Confederate Industrialization,” focused on the story of the Selma Naval Gun Foundry and its relationship to industrialization in the Black Belt during the Civil War.
   
Approximately 50 people attended the lecture and reception.
   
Combs is currently writing a book on industrial labor and wartime production at the Selma Foundry.