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Fall 2024 student on-line history course evaluations: Nov 25 - Dec. 4, 2024.

Fall 2024 students may submit on-line course evaluations for history classes Monday, November 25 through Wednesday December 4, 2024. Student Login - https://webapps.franklin.uga.edu/evaluation/ Note: Wednesday, December 4 (Reading Day) is the last day to submit on-line course evaluations for history classes.


Lunchtime Time Machine: What was medical racism?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Chana Kai Lee. Professor Lee teaches courses in the history of the Civil Rights movement, the history of Georgia, twentieth-century U.S. social history and an introductory course on contemporary issues in African American life and culture. She is the author of the prize-winning book For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, which tells the history…


History Pop-Up at the Russell Special Collections Library

Dr. Steve Soper’s HIST 3775 students will end the term with a pop-up exhibit at the Russell special collections building, on the subject of "Crime and Punishment in Georgia: 20th-Century Prisons and Convict Life." Among the items that will be on display are photographs of convict laborers beginning construction of Sanford Stadium in the 1920s and a crocheted replica of a prison cell made by an inmate on death row in the 1990s. Take a break…


Movie Myth Bustin': U.S. and Memory of WWI

Looking for a way to decompress after the last day of classes and before exams - come hang out, eat pizza, and talk about the first World War! Epsilon Pi, UGA's chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, Inc., is hosting a lecture and screening of the WWI film, The Lost Battalion'. History doctoral student Alex Nordlund will discuss the US and its memory of WWI. Nordlund will look at America's entry and participationn in the conflict and the war's impact on…


The Lee Roy B. Giles Award Gallery Talk

Please join us for a Gallery Talk In Celebration of the 2017 Lee Roy B. Giles Encouragement Award Winners. .  Following the ceremony we will be taking a curator tour of the exhibition "Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection." This year history doctoral student James Wall has been selected as the graduate student winner of the Lee Roy B. Giles Encouragement Award. The Lee Roy B. Giles…


Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition

Please join us and support Kaylynn Washnock, a doctoral candidate in history at UGA, chosen as a finalist to compete in the university-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition at Ciné, downtown Athens, GA. The exercise develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of students’ capacities to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience…


Robert A. Pratt: "Witness to Freedom"

Please join us for a lecture and book signing event with Robert A. Pratt, (UGA Professor of history), for a presentation of his newest book Selma’s Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Robert Pratt’s articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and other publications. He is the recipient of several national fellowships and grants, including a Danforth Foundation Fellowship (1980-1984), a Spencer…


History faculty meeting

History faculty meeting (12:30 - 2pm).  


M.A. Thesis Defense: William McKee

William (Billy) McKee will defend his M.A. thesis, "A Veneer of Competition: The Mahogany Association, 1918-1964" via Zoom. The Major Professor is Dr. Daniel Rood. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office by noon, May 8 for a Zoom invite.


A Conversation about Slavery at UGA and the Baldwin Site Burials

A Conversation about Slavery at UGA and the Baldwin Site Burials: Questions and Answers from UGA faculty, students, and Athens community leaders. The event will be held in the Russell Auditorium on the second floor of the library. It will begin with a panel discussion and include an extended Q&A period to engage with the audience. Free and open to the public. Parking info below. Participants include: Valerie Babb, Director, Institute of…
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