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Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York

The American Antiquarian Society presents the following book talk: Join virtually, or in person, to hear Akela Reason discuss her new book, Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York (June 2025, Yale Univ Press), a rich history of Gilded Age partisan politics, aesthetics, and the creation of New York City’s Civil War monuments. Illuminating the historical context of Civil War soldiers’ monuments in New York City, Reason…


Dirty History: Heather Roller (Colgate University)

Featuring Heather Roller, History and Environmental Studies, Colgate University. "Legacy Chemicals: A Half Century of Pesticides in American Farming and Rural Life." Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by faculty and graduate students from UGA and area universities. The authors whose work we discuss come…


Dirty History: Joseph Lanning and Bram Tucker

Featuring Joseph Lanning, Anthropology, University of Georgia and School for International Training, and Bram Tucker, Anthropology, University of Georgia. "Farming as Gambling: Illusionary Profits and Agricultural Decision-making in the Malawian Green Revolution." Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by…


Dirty History: Amna Qayyum

Featuring Amna Qayyum, Assistant Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Georgia. "The Ghost of Comilla: Local Pilots and Global Development in Rural East Pakistan." Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by faculty and graduate students from UGA and area universities. The…


Special Screening: The Athens Film Project

Join us for a special showing of the Athens Film Project, a production of the Athens Historical Society.  This screening is sponsored by the history department and The B. Phinizy Spalding Chair in History. The Athens Film Project creates short films on Athens history for use in area schools with funds generously donated by local supporters. Working with local teachers, student consultants,  and hired graduate students in history,…


History Film Series: Harakiri

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening Harakiri (1962, dir. Masaki Kobayashi). When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal…


History Film Series: Al-Ard (The Land)

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening The Land (1970, dir. Youssef Chahine). A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local…


History Film Series: A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening A Matter of Life and Death (1946, dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger). A British wartime aviator who cheats death…


Maximizing Productivity, a writing retreat for history grad students & faculty

History graduate students and faculty are invited to join us for an informal summer writing retreat series.  Whether you are working on writing a thesis, article, book, grant, or application, all are welcome to join us in a space dedicated to writing productivity. Mondays this summer, 10 AM - 5 pm.


eHistory conversation - "Native Ground: Place and Language in the Cherokee Nation"

The Willson Center's eHistory Research Cluster, the department of history, and the Institute of Native American Studies present a conversation on "Native Ground: Place and Language in the Cherokee Nation" at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23 in Room 250 of the Miller Learning Center. Topics will include mapping Cherokee homesteads in the nineteenth century, Removal Period archaeology, and Cherokee language and culture…
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