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Heirloom Southern Apples: Past, Present and Future

March 23, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm,  https://botgarden.uga.edu/event/heirloom-southern-apples/ Registration required:   Register Online The morning session begins with a presentation by orchardist and author Diane Flynt, founder of Foggy Ridge Cider and author of Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South. Next, Dr. Stephen Mihm, Head of the Department of History, and Gareth Crosby, Heritage Garden…


Dirty History Workshop: Alexander Bowen

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss doctoral student Alex Bowen's paper, "The Fall of the House of Bradford-Eppes: Planter Decline in Postbellum Florida”. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email Scott Nelson at srnelson@uga.edu.  Dirty History is an…


Dirty History Workshop: Arunabh Ghosh

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "ORENCO and Chinese Small Hydropower in the United States”, with Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an…


Dirty History Workshop: Helen Curry

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "Reading the Green Revolution: Libraries, books, and bibliographies as technologies of agricultural transformation”. With Helen Curry, Melvin Kranzberg Professor, Professor in History of Technology in the School of History and Sociology, Georgia Tech. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance…


Dirty History Workshop: Ben Prostine

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Flying Vials of Bull Semen: Rockefeller Prentice and the Rise of the Artificial Insemination Industry in the US, 1935-70.” With Ben Prostine, Presidential Fellow, University of Georgia. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers,…


Dirty History Workshop: Fraser Livingston

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Prison Pines: Convict Labor and the Longleaf Pine.”With Fraser Livingston, Researcher and Writer, George Bird Grinnell Anthology. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an…


Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “Writing a Way Home: A Life in Southern and Women’s History”

Join us February 22. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall will be presenting the talk: “Writing a Way Home: A Life in Southern and Women’s History.”  Dr. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emeritus at UNC-Chapel Hill and founding director emeritus of UNC’s Southern Oral History Program. She is past president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association and founding past president of the Labor and…


Faculty Lecture | Akela Reason: “Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York”

Associate Professor of History and Director of the UGA Museum Studies Certificate Program Akela Reason will present the lecture “Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York.” Lecture Abstract: As the financial and artistic capital of post-bellum America, New York built some of the most significant monuments to the Civil War. Yet in order to build the city’s monuments, the Republican elite who often spearheaded efforts to…


"Who is Doctor Bauer?: Rematriating a Censored Story on Internment, Wardship, and Sexual Violence in Wartime Alaska, 1941 - 1944"

Join us for a virtual seminar with the winner of FOUR Western History Association awards for the article,“Who Is Dr. Bauer? Indigenous Internment and Intimate Violence in Wartime Alaska, 1941-44” which explores the violation of Aleut women interred by the US Armed Forces during World War II.  Drawing on Oral History, Tribal History, and Federal Archives, Guise weaves a story of sordid abuse and courageous resistance from a heretofore little…


History Behind the Headlines: The Gaza War and the Future of Palestine

Join us as our faculty provide a historical context on current crises in the news and answer questions on the history of events. History Behind the Headlines is not an academic debate or political event, but a talk of historical events which often help inform our understanding of todays news. "History Behind the Headlines: The Gaza War and the Future of Palestine” Free and open to the public. An FYO event. Pizza will be served. Note: if all…
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