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The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal

Please join Dr. Ethan Blue as he presents his new book The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal (University of California Press, 2021).   The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal is a history of the United States' systematic expulsion of "undesirable" immigrants, told through the lives of the passengers who traveled from around the world, only to be locked up and forced…


Info Session: 2022 Washington DC Summer Program in Public History

All students are invited to attend a brief information session about the 2022 Washington Summer Program in Public History to be held on Wednesday, December 8th at 2:00 pm via Zoom. Interested students should email Dr. Reason at areason@uga.edu for the Zoom link.  Note: the priority deadline for applications has been extended to December 31! ........... Applications are still being accepted for the 2022 Washington Summer …


Student Thanksgiving Break: November 27-29

Happy Thanksgiving! No classes Nov. 27 - 29. UGA offices are closed Nov. 28 - 29.  


Info session: Summer Program in Public History in Washington, DC

Join us for an information session about the 2022 Washington Summer Program in Public History. The six-credit program runs the entire summer 5/18/22-8/5/22 and includes a Maymester Introduction to Public History that meets at museums and historic sites in the city. During June and July students intern at a museum, historic site, library, or cultural institution. Applications are now open. For details and application instructions go to: https://…


Franklin Connection: Meet Elizabeth Charles

Meet Elizabeth Charles - Elizabeth C. Charles is a historian in the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State, researching and compiling for the Foreign Relations of the United States series. She completed Reagan administration FRUS volumes on the Soviet Union 1983-85, 1985-86, both recently published and available online at history.state.gov. She also compiled a Reagan volume on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1984-…


2023 Annual Reception for Graduating Seniors in History

Graduating History majors (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, and Summer 2023) are invited to the annual History Department Graduation Reception the afternoon of May 12 (Commencement day). Our guest list is now full. Award recipients and graduating seniors may still RSVP, but due to fire codes we can not accommodate late RSVPs for additional guests. Friday, May 12, 2023 – 12:00-1:30 PM, Refreshments. The reception will include our annual awards and…


Constitution Day Lecture

On Friday, September 17, 2021, the American Founding Group and the School of Public and International Affairs will host a celebration of Constitution Day. The centerpiece of these festivities will be a lecture open to the public entitled “On Juneteenth: History, Memory, the Present and the Future” by Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello …


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why Did Fire Ants Invade Georgia?

This month's Lunchtime Time Machine features alum Kaylynn Washnock Stooksbury, outreach archivist for the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia. Join us for some free history and free pizza. All majors are welcome. This is an FYO event.  


Lunchtime Time Machine: How Did We Double Human Life Expectancy?

Our ever-popular Lunchtime Time Machine talk series presents Dr. Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era as he explores the question "How did we double human life expectancy?" Berry feels compelled to study "old, unhappy, far-off things." A historian of mortality, his research explores the intersections of race, class, gender, family, violence, and death in the nineteenth-century South. All majors are welcome. Free admission, free…


Lunchtime Time Machine: How Did Medieval Chinese Paintings Open Up Portals to Other Worlds?

The Department of History’s undergraduate Lunchtime Time Machine series is back for spring, and our first episode features Dr. Ari Levine, Horace Montgomery Professor of History. Levine will do his best to answer the question - How Did Medieval Chinese Paintings Open Up Portals to Other Worlds? Join us to find his answer! Levine is a specialist in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern China, and teaches a broad range of…
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