Undergraduate

In honor of the 200th birthday of Frederick Douglass, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Smithsonian Transcription Center and the Colored Conventions Project are jointly hosting an event bringing together people to transcribe the Freedmen's Bureau Papers.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, an award-winning journalist and University of Georgia alumna, will present the 2018 Holmes-Hunter Lecture Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel.

The lecture is named in honor of Hunter-Gault and her classmate Hamilton Holmes, the first African-American students to attend UGA.

Sponsored by the Office of the President, the Holmes-Hunter Lecture focuses on race relations, civil rights and education and has been held annually since 1985.

History of Capitalism reading group: This special edition of our group will host a group discussion to which the university community is invited.

What are the real causes of racial wealth inequality? 

Find out at the History Book Club, History of Capitalism Edition

In honor of Black History Month, the History Department is hosting book clubs for interested students. The first book club will take place on Feb. 6th at 12:30 and we will be discussing Adrienne Petty's Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina since the Civil War.

Moderator: Terrell Orr.

In honor of Black History Month, the History Department is hosting two book clubs. The second book club will focus on Martha Jones's Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. Not yet published, students who sign up for this seminar will receive a free copy of a manuscript draft of Jones’s work and will get an in-depth look of how history books are researched, written, and published.

Moderator: Kate Dahlstrand.

Natasha Lightfoot, associate professor, Columbia University, will give a talk on the subject of her new book: Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015). Lightfoot secializes in slavery and emancipation studies, and black identities, politics, and cultures in the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History. Her  book focuses on black working class people's everyday forms of freedom in Antigua after emancipation.

Each year the history department holds a graduate student competition in which current graduate students have just a few minutes to explain an interesting historical topic they would like to present as a guest lecturer in our Lunchtime Time Machine series. The audience votes for the best-represented lecture they would most like to hear. This year's winner and guest lecturer is Kate Dahlstrand.

Save the date! Tore Olsson, a UGA history alumni and current Assistant Professor of History at U Tennessee-Knoxville, will give a talk entitled, "Looking for Parallels and Intersections in US and Mexican History."  Olsson's new book is Agrarian Crossings (Princeton U 2017). 

This is an FYO event.

The public is invited to this FREE event.

Our undergraduate reception (party) will be in the afternoon on the same day as UGA Commencement, which happens later in the day at 7pm and students are also encouraged to attend commencement. All graduating history majors and their families are invited. This event is by invitation only and more information and RSVP details will be announced by March. Please join us in celebrating the commencement and achievements of our graduating history majors.

Final Exams are December 7 - 13. See the registrar's website for exam schedules.

·     Admission to Course Examinations:  Students who have not registered for the course will not be admitted to the final examination, and only under extraordinary circumstances will they be admitted to the examination unless they have attended at least 50 percent of the total class and laboratory exercises held in the course.