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Constitution Day: “The Consistency of James Madison: the Bill of Rights”

The School of Public and International Affairs invites you to our annual Constitution Day lecture in celebration of the day that Constitutional Convention representatives in Philadelphia completed and signed the United States Constitution in 1787.  The centerpiece of these festivities is a virtual lecture open to the public by Professor Michael Zuckert, the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, University of Notre Dame,…


Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Although our April 22nd talk by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall was cancelled due to Covid19, you are invited to attend a lecture via Zoom, presented by The Labor and Working Class History Association's Pandemic Book Talks: Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita of History at the UNC-Chapel Hill In Sisters and Rebels, LAWCHA’s founding president Jacquelyn Dowd Hall offers an epic…


History Lecture: Dr. Ursula Prutsch

Dr. Ursula Prutsch will present a lecture, “The Ammunition King Fritz Mandl: How an Austrian Emigrant of Jewish Origin was Turned into an Argentine Nazi.”  Dr. Prutsch is Professor of American Cultural Studies at The Amerika-Institut at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich, Germany). Dr. Prutsch studied history and Spanish at Karl-Franzens-University Graz, habilitation at the University of Vienna. Research areas: History of Brazil,…


Capitalist Souths Keynote Speaker: Bart Elmore

Please join us as Bart Elmore, Environmental Historian at the Ohio State University, presents the Capitalists Souths, Graduate Student Conference Keynote lecture: "Countryside Capitalism: How Businesses from the American South Transformed Global Economies and Ecosystems in the 20th Century" This event is FREE and open to the public. Bart Elmore is an Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University, and a member of the Sustainable and…


Book Talk: Holly Pinheiro (Augusta U)

Join us as Franklin Visiting Scholar Holly Pinheiro presents a talk about his forthcoming book on Post-Civil War African American Family Life in Philadelphia. This event is free and open to the public. Holly Anthony Pinheiro is Assistant Professor of history at Augusta University. Dr. Pinheiro’s research focuses on the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in the military from 1850 through the 1910s. Counter to the national narrative…


2020 Michael L. Thurmond Lecture, featuring Dr. Maurice C. Daniels

Please join us for the annual Michael L. Thurmond lecture series. This year’s lecturer is Dr. Maurice C. Daniels, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of the University of Georgia School of Social Work. His new book, Ground Crew, examines the fight to end segregation at Georgia State. With very special guest, Ms. Mary Frances Early. UGA’s first African American graduate; the university is renaming the College of Education in her honor. Youth…


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.
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