Book Launch - An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America, with Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt

Save the Date!  Join us for a book talk presented by the Athens Historical Society, featuring UGA History alum Keri Leigh Merritt, who will discuss her book and research, An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America (September 2026, Macmillan Publishers).

History Film Series: All the President's Men

Join us for a screening of All the President's Men (1976, dir. Alan Pakula), with an introduction by Professor Ellie Shermer. Academy Award winners Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in this true story as Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose investigation of a seemingly minor hotel room break-in uncovers the greatest political scandal in United States history and leads to the downfall of President Richard Nixon. (From Swank Motion Pictures)

History Film Series: The Return of Martin Guerre

Join us for a screening of The Return of Martin Guerre (1982, dir. Daniel Vigne), with an introduction by Professor Palmer and Professor Soper. During the middle of the sixteenth century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends, his family and his wife, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?

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