Image: Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Palmer, who was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her project: "Race, Gender, and Property Ownership in the Eighteenth-Century French Atlantic World." Kudos to Kurt List (BA UGA History, BA International Affairs), whose senior thesis was recently published in the Virginia Tech Undergraduate Historical Review. The paper, entitled "One Man’s Patriot is Another Man’s Bandit: Sandino’s Image and the Debate Over the U.S. Occupation of Nicaragua", can be viewed at the following link https://vtuhr.org/articles/10.21061/vtuhr.v10i1.137/ Dr. Ben Ehlers was highlighted by UGA Special Collections Library for having designed an active learning course through the Special Collections Libraries Faculty Teaching Fellows program. Ehlers used the SLC's significant collection of Renaissance-era books in his lectures. (Photo of Ehlers and student Gabriell Smallwood, courtesy of UGA Special Collections.) Dr. Brian Drake was also highlighted as a Special Collections Library Faculty Teaching Fellow. Drake uses correspondence files from the Richard Russell and Herman Talmadge collection to immerse his students in an era. Dr. Susan Mattern's latest book The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause was featured in the New York Times article, "Why is Perimenopause Still Such a Mystery?". https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/well/perimenopause-women.html? A recent University of North Carolina press image caught our eye, as it featured the new book by Dr. Stephen Berry, Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death As We Know It, alongside new books by two of his former students! Dr. Angela Esco Elder's latest is Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss, and Dr. David K. Thomson's book Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union. Dr. James Brooks was recently quoted in the New York Times, in the article "A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement", on two exhibitions about stories of Indigenous bondage in southern Colorado. Link to article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/arts/design/native-american-enslavement-colorado-exhibition.html
