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Book Talk: Holly Pinheiro (Augusta U)

Join us as Franklin Visiting Scholar Holly Pinheiro presents a talk about his forthcoming book on Post-Civil War African American Family Life in Philadelphia. This event is free and open to the public. Holly Anthony Pinheiro is Assistant Professor of history at Augusta University. Dr. Pinheiro’s research focuses on the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in the military from 1850 through the 1910s. Counter to the national narrative…


IWS Speaker Series with Jennifer Palmer: 'She persisted in her revolt': Slavery and Freedom in the French Caribbean

Institute for Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series Lecture, featuring Dr. Jennifer Palmer, Associate Professor, history. Dr. Palmer is a historian of Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic, and teaches courses about Europe, the Atlantic world, women and gender, race, and pirates.  She is also the coordinator for the History and Gender Workshop. Palmer's first book, Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic, follows the…


2020 Michael L. Thurmond Lecture, featuring Dr. Maurice C. Daniels

Please join us for the annual Michael L. Thurmond lecture series. This year’s lecturer is Dr. Maurice C. Daniels, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of the University of Georgia School of Social Work. His new book, Ground Crew, examines the fight to end segregation at Georgia State. With very special guest, Ms. Mary Frances Early. UGA’s first African American graduate; the university is renaming the College of Education in her honor. Youth…


Tour of Historic Black Athens (this event is FULL)

Broderick Flanigan, local artist and historian, presents a tour of historic Black Athens. The tour is now full and no additional reservations are being accepted. A celebration of Black History Month event, sponsored by the Department of History.


Free Screening of "Glory", followed by a discussion with Holly Pinheiro

Join us for a film screening of the film Glory, and a discussion afterwards led by Professor Holly Pinheiro. Glory is the story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. With Denzel Washington in an Oscar®-winning performance (1989, Best Supporting Actor), as the runaway slave who embodies the spirit of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts.…


Black History Month Book Club: Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University

Louis Nelson (University of Virginia) will meet with students to discuss Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University (UVA Press, 2019), the volume he co-edited with Maurie McInnis (University of Texas). We have twenty copies of the book to give away free to students who are interested in participating. Please email history@uga.edu to RSVP and to obtain a free copy of the book. Pizza will be provided! A…


"Below Baldwin", a documentary film screening

A documentary film screening. In 2015, graves were discovered during renovations to the University of Georgia’s Baldwin Hall under and nearby the foundation of the building. The documentary Below Baldwin, directed by Joe Lavine and narrated by Broderick Flanigan, tells the story of the discovery of the graves, and the events that followed. Refreshments, 6:30 PM. Join us for a screening of the documentary at 7 PM, followed by a Q & A with…


Black History Month Book Club: The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

Black History Month is February, and the Department of History is kicking things off with a reading club, featuring Professor Thavolia Glymph's The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation, which has just been published this month.  Glymph is a distinguished historian of African-American history at Duke University.  You can read more about her work here.  We have twenty copies of Glymph'…


Thavolia Glymph: "The Civil War: The Beauty and Blood of Cotton Come Home"

Join us as Thavolia Glymph (Duke University) presents a public lecture entitled “The Civil War: The Beauty and Blood of Cotton Come Home.” Dr. Thavolia Glymph, professor of history and law, studies the U.S. South with a focus on nineteenth century social history. Glymph is the author of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and The Women's Fight: The Civil…


Spring 2020 Final Exams April 30, May 1-6

Final Exams Apr. 30 May 1 - 6 Thursday - Wednesday
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