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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Larson to present UGA Charter Lecture

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and legal scholar Edward Larson will return to the University of Georgia to deliver the Charter Lecture titled "George Washington and America's Second Revolution." Larson taught at UGA for two decades, serving as chair of the history department as well as the Richard B. Russell Professor of American History and holder of the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law. This lecture is free and open to the public.


"Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History: Georgia Women Shape the 20th Century" presented by Kathleen Clark, History

Women’s History Month – Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series Lecture "Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History: Georgia Women Shape the 20th Century," Kathleen Clark, an associate professor in the Department of History. Contact: Terri Hatfield 706-542-2846 Free, Open to the Public, First Year Odyssey Approved Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies


Douglas A. Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II"

David Blackmon will present his talk Thursday at UGA's Dean Rusk Hall.  He spent more than two decades as a daily newspaper reporter and bureau chief and won his first Pulitzer Prize for The Wall Street Journal staff's breaking news coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "Slavery by Another Name," published in 2008, won the Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction book category. It documents the widespread incidence of African-…


Civil Rights Historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin: "‘The Civil Rights Queen': Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America."

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the Daniel P. S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law and a professor of history at Harvard University, will present "‘The Civil Rights Queen': Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America." The Donald L. Hollowell Lecture annually brings to UGA a national or international expert in the areas of civil and human rights or social and economic sustainability. The lecture is co-sponsored by…


Women’s History Month Keynote Address

"Indigenous Feminist Narratives," Andrea Smith, an associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California Riverside. Smith received her Ph.D. in history of consciousness at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2002. Previously, she taught in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her publications include: "Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely…


Food Chains Film Screening (Latin American Sustainable Agriculture Initiative)

Join the Latin American Sustainable Agriculture Initiative for a screening of Food Chains. This exposé documents the human cost of food by focusing on the lives of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a group of Florida farmworkers, that battle the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their Fair Food program. After the screening, a panel of discussants will talk about their research and lives as it relates to this important film.…


Visiting lecturer Peter Wood: “Did you ever hear ‘bout de Andersonville prison in Georgia?”

 A fresh sesquicentennial look at a familiar Civil War topic--Peter Wood (Professor Emeritus, Duke U) is an American historian and author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974). It has been described as one of the most influential books on southern U.S. history of the past 50 years. The university community is invited to attend. Sponsored by the Department of History.


Guest Lecture: Ari Kelman

Ari Kelman, the McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State University, will present a program on his recent award-winning book, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek.  A Misplaced Massacre has been the recent recipient of the Avery O. Craven Award, the Bancroft Prize and the Tom Watson Brown Book Award. A Misplaced Massacre explores the struggles over how notorious the Sand Creek massacre of 1864 was and how it…


Bart Elmore – “Citizen Coke”

Dr. Bart Elmore is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama. His book, Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton. In this new book Elmore explores Coke through its ingredients, showing how the company secured massive quantities of coca leaf, caffeine, sugar, and other inputs. Its growth was driven by shrewd leaders, bringing jobs and development to every corner of the globe. Details…


Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture: James Cobb

The Phinizy Lectures rank as UGA's most distinguished lecture series in the humanities. This year's lecture is etitled "Divided by a Common Past: Southerners and the Struggle to Secure Their Version of History", presented by James C. Cobb, B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Research Professor in the History of the American South. Cobb is an expert in the history and culture of the American South and has written and lectured extensively on these…
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