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Created Equal Film Series Screening: "The Loving Story"

The Loving Story is a story of love and the struggle for dignity set against a backdrop of historic anti-miscegenation sentiments in the U.S. Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested in July 1958, in Virginia, for violating a state law that banned marriage between people of different races... Dr. Robert Pratt, (UGA, History) will lead a discussion following the film. A native of Essex County, Virginia, Dr. Pratt grew up near the Lovings and…


"From European Witches to Afro-Caribbean Obeah Men: Gender and Supernatural Crimes in the Atlantic World"

Dr. Danielle Boaz of UNC Charlotte Africana Studies department will discuss her work on gender and supernatural crimes in the Atlantic World. A session of the Gender and History Workshop. For information: Leah Richier


#Throwback Therapies: History of Medical Science Series Lecture: Vivian Nutton

"Reading Outside the Canon: Some New Thoughts on Medicine in the Time of Galen," Vivian Nutton, a professor of the history of medicine and culture at the First Moscow State Medical School. Nutton studied classics at Cambridge University, before becoming a Fellow of Selwyn College, specializing in ancient history. In 1977, he moved to London where he taught the history of medicine to students at University College and the Wellcome Institute for…


Stephen Berry: "CSI Dixie: Medical Science and Death Investigation in the 19th Century South"

This is a Throwback Therapies: History of Medical Science Series Lecture by Dr. Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era and co-founder of the Center for Virtual History at UGA. The lecture focuses on the increasing role of medical science in establishing precise causes of death in the 19th-century U. S., which in turn created a more precise and robust understanding of public health. The data is drawn from two sources—the South…


Historian Catherine Clinton: "The Assassination of Mary Lincoln"

Award-winning historian Catherine Clinton, author of Mary Lincoln: A Life (HarperCollins, 2009) delivers a short lecture on the myriad tragedies suffered by Mary Lincoln in the aftermath of her husband's murder. Inconsolable in grief, Mary Lincoln was then herself the victim of character assassination in stories that were circulated first by her enemies, then by her biographers and her historians. Come hear the "other half" of the assassination…


Regent: A Short History of British Abolitionism

Padraic X. Scanlan is a historian of the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is finishing a book entitled MacCarthy's Skull, a history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone. His new research project examines efforts to statistically quantify the development of "civilization" in post-emancipation societies, particularly the development of metrics to measure literacy, morality, religiosity…


Guest Speaker John Parker : “What’s a History Degree Good for Anyway?”

Distinguished UGA alum John R. Parker Jr. (History, '73) presents a talk on "What’s a History Degree Good for Anyway?” John Parker is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel,Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. This event is free and open to the public. Pizza will be served for this lunch hour talk.


Crafting Cultural Commodities in a Global Age: Market Regulation, Empire, and the Struggle to Defend “French” Wine in the Early Twentieth Century

Elizabeth Heath is an historian of Modern France and the French Empire, her research focuses on colonialism, globalization, and everyday life in France and the French empire. 


Gregory Distinguished Lecture: Martha Hodes

"Mourning Lincoln: The Assassination and the Aftermath of the Civil War," presented by  Martha Hodes, a professor of history at New York University. Public responses to Lincoln's assassination have been well chronicled, but Hodes is the first to delve into personal and private responses—of African-Americans and whites, yankees and confederates, men and women, soldiers and civilians—investigating the story of the nation's first presidential…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why did a conservative housewife, an accountant, and the 1964 Republican presidential nominee go green?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Brian Drake. Professor Drake teaches the second half of the U.S. history survey and courses in environmental history. His recent book, Loving Nature, Fearing the State, focuses on the relationship of the postwar American environmental movement to postwar politics and ideology. Students of all majors welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.
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