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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…


Academic Calendar: Monday Class Schedule in Effect

Monday Class Schedule in Effect.


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…


Student Poster Conference: Race & Slavery in the Americas

Please join us as the students in Dr. Cassia Roth's HIST/LACS 3210 Race and Slavery in the Americas will be present their original research on Tuesday in the Special Collections Library.


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.


GRS Visiting Scholar Workshop: Antwain Hunter on black gun ownership

The Gender, Race, and Sexuality Group has invited historian Antwain Hunter (Butler University) to campus this February to share his research on the history of black gun ownership.  We'll be reading both a paper and two complementary articles suggested by Dr. Hunter. Join us Friday, February 7 at 3:30pm in 320 LeConte Hall to workshop Dr. Hunter’s paper. All are welcome! Please RSVP Annelle Brunson for the…


Exploring Digital Histories Panel

Want to learn about digital forms available to historians? Interested in bringing digital humanities into history? Ready to reach a broader audience? Join us Thursday, February 6 at 4:00pm in DIGILab to hear from four leading historians who have each explored a different facet of digital history. Please contact Cassia Roth or Annelle Brunson with any questions!   This event is free and open to the public.


History Guest Lecture: Grace Hale (U Virginia)

Dr. Grace Hale is Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia. She will speak on her paper, "The Lyncher in the Family: Reckoning with My Mississippi Grandfather and the Intimate History of White Supremacy." The “lyncher in the family” is a metaphor for just how close most white Americans are to the practice of white supremacy.  Despite our desire to see vigilante violence as a relic of the…


Save the Date: 10th Annual Gregory Distinguished Lecture (time TBA)

The 10th annual Gregory Lecture, delivered by Peter Carmichael, Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, will be October 22, 2020 and will kickoff the "Historicizing the Self: Emotions and Cognition in U.S. History" conference. This is a free and public event. Lecture topic and details to be announced.


Lecture: Dr. Hilary Green, The Hallowed Grounds Project

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Hilary Green entitled, "The Hallowed Grounds Project: Slavery, Memory and Engagement at the University of Alabama." Dr. Hilary N. Green is an Associate Professor of History and Co-Program Director of African American Studies in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the  University of Alabama. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010, her M.A. in…
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