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P.A.T. Honor Society & History Book Club movie night & costume contest! Film: The Witch

Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society & History Book Club Movie Night: The Witch, a New England Folk Tale.  With an introduction by Dr. Michael Winship - who teaches spooky stuff like the real history of the Salem Witch Trials and other dire moments in history. Join the history group for a spooky movie and our monthly meetup. We'll have pizza for attendees, as our meetups are more about the treats than tricks. Special note: We are going…


Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society & History Book Club presents a historical debate: The Atom Bomb

Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society & History Book Club presents: A Historical Debate: The Atom Bomb. Join us and learn what our student organization is all about. Phi Alpha Theta, also known as History Club, is an Honors Society that hosts meetings about various historical topics meant to provide a fun and engaging community for history students and all who love learning about the past! It (usually) meets the last Wednesday of each month…


Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society & History Book Club - Trivia Night!

Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society & History Book Club, presents our monthly meeting, plus Trivia Night! Join us and learn what our student organization is all about. Phi Alpha Theta, also known as History Club, is an Honors Society that hosts meetings about various historical topics meant to provide a fun and engaging community for history students and all who love learning about the past! It (usually) meets the last Wednesday of each…


Grace Ballor: Enterprise and Integration: Big Business and the Making of the Single European Market

Join us for a talk by Dr. Grace Ballor Monday afternoon, about her research and forthcoming book: Enterprise and Integration: Big Business and the Making of the Single European Market. Grace Ballor is a historian interested in the international political economy of contemporary Europe and the intersections of global capitalism and global governance. She is currently Assistant Professor of International Economic History at Bocconi University, and…


Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era, with James Welborn (GCSU)

Join us for a talk by Dr. James Hill "Trae" Welborn III about his research and latest book, Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era, https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5200/. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, reared in Fernandina Beach, Florida, and educated at Clemson University (BA 2005, MA 2007) and the University of Georgia (PhD 2014), Dr. Welborn specializes in American…


Book talk with Dr. Jason De León (UCLA): Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

Join us as award-winning author, anthropologist, and MacArthur fellow Dr. Jason De León (The Land of Open Graves) discusses his acclaimed new book Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling (Penguin, 2024). Jason De León is the Director of UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies. Free and open to the public. This event is part of a series presented by Indigenizing…


2025 Graduating History Majors Reception & Annual Awards

2024-25 graduating History majors are invited to the annual History Department Graduation Reception the afternoon of May 9.  The reception will include our annual awards and graduation recognition, with a gift for each graduating senior in attendance. Opening remarks by Franklin College Dean Dr. Anna Stenport. We would like to take a group photo of our prospective graduates following the awards in the auditorium. Students are welcome to…


Lunchtime Time Machine: How modern is surveillance?

Join us as Dr. Steven Soper explores answers to the question - How modern is surveillance? Soper's study of association of life in nineteenth-century Italy, Building a Civil Society, was published last fall by the University of Toronto Press. It won the American Association of Italian Studies 2014 prize for the best book on 18th- or 19th-century Italy, and the Society for Italian Historical Studies 2014 Marraro prize for the best book on the…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Did Jesus actually live in the 12th century?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Joseph Kellner who will explore the intriguing question, Did Jesus actually live in the 12th century? Dr. Kellner teaches Russian and Soviet history His forthcoming book, The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse, is a cultural history of the collapse of the USSR, focused on the highly visible flourishing of radical spiritual…


Lunchtime Time Machine with Tracey Johnson: How did a prison rebellion lead to a nationwide prison arts program?

Join us for lunch as Dr. Tracey Johnson investigates the query, How did a prison rebellion lead to a nationwide prison arts program? In the wake of the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion, a Black artist activist group called the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) started a prison arts exchange to help ameliorate the conditions for incarcerated people. This talk will focus on the effectiveness and power of the educational and therapeutic effects…
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