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Final Exams Apr. 30 May 1 - 6 Thursday - Wednesday
Monday Class Schedule in Effect.
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…
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.
Karyna Hlyvynska will defend her doctoral dissertation, "'Putting the Machine in Motion': How the U.S. Treasury Department Built a Fiscal-Military State" on Tuesday. The major professor is Dr. Scott Nelson. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.
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.
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…
All UGA graduate students are welcome to join us Thursday, February 6 at 10:00am for a coffee-hour roundtable with visiting scholar Sarah Handley-Cousins! This is a great opportunity to ask questions about the history of medicine, disability studies, and gender theory, as well as the larger field of American Civil War scholarship and 19th century U.S. history.   Please email Annelle Brunson with any questions!
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.
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…