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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…


The Looming War With Iran

The Looming War With Iran (History of the Present): Professor Kevin Jones discusses the historical background to the recent eruption of violence between Iran and the United States and the prospects for war and peace in the coming days.


Confronting An Ugly Past, Building a Beautiful Future: The Legacy of Jim Crow at the Birmingham Museum of Art

Graham C. Boettcher is The R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art. He will present a talk at the Georgia Museum of Art, "Confronting An Ugly Past, Building a Beautiful Future:  The Legacy of Jim Crow at the Birmingham Museum of Art." The university community is invited - this is a free and public event. Boettcher He arrived at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2006, first serving as The Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow of…


Disability and the American Civil War

Join us Thursday, February 6 at 12:30pm as Sarah Handley-Cousins shares insights from her latest book, Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North. Please email Annelle Brunson with any questions. This event is free and open to the public. With support from the Gregory Chair/Professor of the Civil War Era.


History Guest Lecture: Grace Hale (U Virginia)

Dr. Grace Hale is Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia. She will speak on her paper, "The Lyncher in the Family: Reckoning with My Mississippi Grandfather and the Intimate History of White Supremacy." The “lyncher in the family” is a metaphor for just how close most white Americans are to the practice of white supremacy.  Despite our desire to see vigilante violence as a relic of the…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Who Murdered All These Kids?

This installment of the Department of History's undergraduate lecture series features Alexandra Velez, a Master's student in history and winner of this year's grad student LTTM competition. Free admission, free lunch! (Box lunches will be distributed at the end of the talk) This event , Reservations required - email our Main Office cilla71@uga.edu or call 706 542-2053 to reserve your space. Please wear a face covering.


Patricia Matthew: "'for dead weight': Sugar, Literature, and Anti-Slavery Material Culture"

UGA's Colloquium in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and the Franklin College Office of Inclusion & Diversity Leadership present: "'for dead weight': Sugar, Literature, and Anti-Slavery Material Culture," a lecture by a 2019 Franklin Visiting Fellow Patricia Matthew, associate professor of English at Montclair State University. A reception in the Robert West Library, Park Hall 261 will follow Matthew's talk. The…


Lecture: Dr. Oumelbanine Zhiri

Join the Willson/ Mellon Early Modern Studies group for a lecture by Oumelbanine Zhiri, Professor of French at the University of California San Diego. She has published on French and Arabic literature, Mediterranean culture, as well as European and Arabic travel literature and geography. Worldmaking, or global imagining, is a feature of early modern culture, best symbolized by the globes that became an important and…


Guest Lecture: Teaching Latinx Atlanta History

Iliana (Yami) Rodriquez is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Yale University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on Latinx history, migration, culture, and labor within the southern United States. This academic year she is a predoctoral fellow at Emory's James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, where she is completing her dissertation, "Constructing Mexican Atlanta, 1980-2016."  


Save the Date: 10th Annual Gregory Distinguished Lecture (time TBA)

The 10th annual Gregory Lecture, delivered by Peter Carmichael, Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, will be October 22, 2020 and will kickoff the "Historicizing the Self: Emotions and Cognition in U.S. History" conference. This is a free and public event. Lecture topic and details to be announced.
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