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Heirloom Southern Apples: Past, Present and Future

March 23, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm,  https://botgarden.uga.edu/event/heirloom-southern-apples/ Registration required:   Register Online The morning session begins with a presentation by orchardist and author Diane Flynt, founder of Foggy Ridge Cider and author of Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South. Next, Dr. Stephen Mihm, Head of the Department of History, and Gareth Crosby, Heritage Garden…


Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “Writing a Way Home: A Life in Southern and Women’s History”

Join us February 22. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall will be presenting the talk: “Writing a Way Home: A Life in Southern and Women’s History.”  Dr. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emeritus at UNC-Chapel Hill and founding director emeritus of UNC’s Southern Oral History Program. She is past president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association and founding past president of the Labor and…


Faculty Lecture | Akela Reason: “Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York”

Associate Professor of History and Director of the UGA Museum Studies Certificate Program Akela Reason will present the lecture “Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York.” Lecture Abstract: As the financial and artistic capital of post-bellum America, New York built some of the most significant monuments to the Civil War. Yet in order to build the city’s monuments, the Republican elite who often spearheaded efforts to…


"Who is Doctor Bauer?: Rematriating a Censored Story on Internment, Wardship, and Sexual Violence in Wartime Alaska, 1941 - 1944"

Join us for a virtual seminar with the winner of FOUR Western History Association awards for the article,“Who Is Dr. Bauer? Indigenous Internment and Intimate Violence in Wartime Alaska, 1941-44” which explores the violation of Aleut women interred by the US Armed Forces during World War II.  Drawing on Oral History, Tribal History, and Federal Archives, Guise weaves a story of sordid abuse and courageous resistance from a heretofore little…


Book Presentation: Exemplary Violence: Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia

Join us Friday for an event co-hosted by LACSI and Romance Language—a book presentation featuring Dr. Alberto Villate-Isaza’s new book Exemplary Violence: Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia. Comments by Dr. Cassia Roth, Department of History & LACSI. Light refreshments will be served.


Oconee Library History Series: "From Slavery to the Stars: Examining the Lives and Legacies of Harriet Jacobs and Katherine Johnson"

This month's History Lecture at the Oconee County Library features UGA Ph.D. student Maya Brooks presenting a talk that explores the lives of Harriet Jacobs and Katherine Johnson and the ways in which their experiences as Black women in America were both similar and different.  Jacobs was born enslaved and her narrative explores her struggle to not only free herself but her children as well. Johnson, best known for her work at…


Book talk: "Latin America's Democratic Crusade", with Allen Wells

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Allen Wells, Bowdoin College, on his research and new book Latin America’s Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle Against Dictatorship, 1920s–1960s (Yale University Press, 2023). Allen Wells is Roger Howell, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at Bowdoin College. His scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history, especially Yucatán, the history of commodities, and U.S.-Latin American relations, and he…


Phinizy Lecture: Colson Whitehead

Author Colson Whitehead will visit UGA and Athens for the department of history’s Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, which will be included in the university's Spotlight on the Arts festival. In addition to his public talk in the UGA Chapel, Whitehead will visit with classes at UGA and at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens. Whitehead is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of 11 books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-…


Hispanic Heritage Month guest lecture: New Histories of the Latino South: A Conversation with Cecilia Márquez and Sarah McNamara

Hispanic Heritage Month guest lecture, "New Histories of the Latino South: A Conversation with Cecilia Márquez and Sarah McNamara". Cecilia Márquez is the Hunt Family Assistant Professor in History and previously taught Latino/a Studies at New York University. She earned her MA and PhD in American History at the University of Virginia. Her forthcoming book, Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation will be released September 2023…


Dirty History presents Kris Lane: Cash for Your Gold! Precious Metals, the Environment, & Early Modernity

Join us for a talk by Dr. Kris Lane, "Cash for Your Gold! Precious Metals, the Environment, & Early Modernity." A historian of early modern mining, Kris Lane revisits precious metals extraction and circulation in light of new approaches to materialism and environmental degradation. Kris Lane holds the France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University in New Orleans, USA. He is author of Pandemic in …
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