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Join Henry Cowles (University of Michigan) and Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia) for a conversation about scientists, pigs, and history writing, featuring their books The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey and Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West. To sign up for the virtual event, visit the event page over at Avid Bookshop's site.
For decades traditional crafts have too often been considered as romantic vestiges of a forgotten past. Yet recent trends have begun to identify that there is much we can learn from the so-called "old ways" of doing things. With our own relationship with the planet being brought into sharper focus, perhaps it is time to look again at historic practices of making and doing and examine why some techniques have been so long-lived. What can we now…
 Free Join the Atlanta Chapter of the UGA Alumni Association for a conversation with Sheffield Hale (BA history ’82), president and CEO of the Atlanta History Center. Sheffield will lead an educational discussion on historical facts and context around monuments, historic markers, and the meaning behind them. Sign up today to make sure you get to ask your questions! This event will be moderated by Dr. Bennett-Alexander, extensively…
Please join the departments of History, Anthropology, and the Institute of Native American Studies to welcome Professor Liza Black of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma for a discussion of her new book, Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960.  As a UGA Franklin/Gable Visiting Scholar, she will discuss a life that moved between Oklahoma and Los Angeles, and her explorations into the working lives of Native actors in Hollywood.…
The School of Public and International Affairs invites you to our annual Constitution Day lecture in celebration of the day that Constitutional Convention representatives in Philadelphia completed and signed the United States Constitution in 1787.  The centerpiece of these festivities is a virtual lecture open to the public by Professor Michael Zuckert, the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, University of Notre Dame,…
Although our April 22nd talk by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall was cancelled due to Covid19, you are invited to attend a lecture via Zoom, presented by The Labor and Working Class History Association's Pandemic Book Talks: Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita of History at the UNC-Chapel Hill In Sisters and Rebels, LAWCHA’s founding president Jacquelyn Dowd Hall offers an epic…
Dr. Ursula Prutsch will present a lecture, “The Ammunition King Fritz Mandl: How an Austrian Emigrant of Jewish Origin was Turned into an Argentine Nazi.”  Dr. Prutsch is Professor of American Cultural Studies at The Amerika-Institut at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich, Germany). Dr. Prutsch studied history and Spanish at Karl-Franzens-University Graz, habilitation at the University of Vienna. Research areas: History of Brazil,…
Please join us as Bart Elmore, Environmental Historian at the Ohio State University, presents the Capitalists Souths, Graduate Student Conference Keynote lecture: "Countryside Capitalism: How Businesses from the American South Transformed Global Economies and Ecosystems in the 20th Century" This event is FREE and open to the public. Bart Elmore is an Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University, and a member of the Sustainable and…
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…
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…

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