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We already knew our Master's history student Kathryn Veale is amazing. Read the entire article about Kathryn on the UGA web site.
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Dr. Akela Reason "will discuss the history and construction of Confederate monuments and memorials during the next Brown Bag Luncheon hosted by the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation.
With Chancellor Angela Merkel up for a fourth term amid challenges from the Social Democrats and the populist Alternative for Germany, the election of September 24 holds the potential to reshape German politics. The Transnational European Studies program, the Germanic and Slavic Studies department, and SPIA present this roundtable discussion of the elections in Germany and Europe, 2016-17. Speakers include Alex Sager (Germanic and Slavic Studies), Markus Crepaz (SPIA), Cas Mudde (SPIA), and Jan Uelzmann (Georgia Tech).
Refreshments will follow the event.
Friends of Gospel Pilgrim, a UGA student service organization, is hosting a service day at Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery this Saturday from 9-12. (You'll have plenty of time before the afternoon football game!)
Gospel Pilgrim is a historic African American cemetery in Athens in need of care and maintenance. This Saturday's service day will focus on clearing out debris left behind from last week's storm.
The Annual Gregory Distinguished Lecture series presents Craig Steven Wilder, the author of Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities (2014). His talk will be on "Slavery and Universities in Revolutionary America".
Please see your emailed invitation for details: History department graduate students, faculty, staff and their families are invited to the second History Department Graduate Student, Faculty, and Staff Mixer at the home of Cindy Hahamovitch and Scott R. Nelson. Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
This is a private event. Invited guests only.
Questions? Please contact Reinaldo Román at hiscoord@uga.edu.
Want to learn about our public history internship program? Join us Thursday for free Pizza and the answers to all of your burning questions on how to apply, how to pay for this valuable summer semester in Washington, DC , how to get a pub;lic history intenship, and much more.
Have you ever visited an exhibit and felt you only heard the first part of a truly great story?
Richard Shawn Faulkner will give a talk on “Mud, Blood, and Dysentery: The Doughboy’s Life in Battle” as part of The U.S. in the First World War, a lecture series commemorating the centennial of the entrance of the United States into World War I, sponsored by the department of history and the Willson Center.
Chad Williams will give a talk on the wartime experience of African American soldiers in World War I and the rise of the New Negro as part of The U.S. in the First World War, a lecture series commemorating the centennial of the entrance of the United States into World War I, sponsored by the department of history and the Willson Center.
Chad Williams is associate professor of African and Afro-American studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era.
Lynn Dumenil will give a talk on “Modern American Women and World War I” as part of The U.S. in the First World War, a lecture series commemorating the centennial of the entrance of the United States into World War I, sponsored by the department of history and the Willson Center.
