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Lunchtime Time Machine: How did slaves survive the Civil War?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Scott Nesbit. Professor Nesbit uses digital tools to tackle questions about the history and spaces of the American South. He has led digital history projects such as Visualizing Emancipation, which used a wide array of textual sources — ranging from military correspondence to runaway slave advertisements found in southern newspapers — to map out where and…


Lunchtime Time Machine: How is the jellyfish the allegorical figure of global capitalism?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. John Short. Professor Short teaches courses on the intellectual and cultural history of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of Magic Lantern Empire: Colonialism and Society in Germany. He is currently working on a project that explores the idea and limits of global consciousness. Free admission, free pizza.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why did punks hate hippies?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Montgomery Wolf. Professor Wolf teaches the first and second halves of the U.S. survey course and upper-division courses on modern America and American popular music. She is finishing a book manuscript titled We Accept You, One of US? Punk Rock, Community, and Individualism in an Uncertain Era. Free admission, free pizza.


Lunchtime Time Machine: How do you counterfeit money (in nineteenth-century America)?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Stephen Mihm. Professor Mihm teaches the second half of the U.S. survey and upper-division courses on nineteenth-century America and on the history of American capitalism. He the is author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States and co-author of Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance. Free…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why do Brazilian politicians shoot each other so often?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Bryan Pitts. Professor Pitts teaches courses on the history of Latin America and Brazil. He is currently writing a book titled The Inadvertent Opposition: Politicians, Social Movements, and the Demise of Brazil’s Military Regime, and he has written on contemporary Brazilian politics for a variety of media outlets in both English and Portuguese. Free…


Lunchtime Time Machine: How did Roman toilets work?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Susan Mattern. Professor Mattern teaches courses in world history and in the history of Greece, Rome, ancient Egypt, marriage, medicine, disease, women, and law. She has written several books, including most recently The Prince of Medicine, a biography of the ancient physician Galen, and she is currently working on mental disorders in antiquity and a…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why did everybody expect the Spanish Inquisition?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Benjamin Ehlers. Professor Ehlers teaches courses on the history of early modern Spain and England, European encounters with Islam, and transnationalism. He is the author of Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614.  Free admission, free pizza.     


Phi Alpha Theta Spring Initiation

Phi Alpha Theta, Inc., Epsilon Pi, UGA's campus chapter of the National History Honor Society, will hold a spring initiation event for new members. New and returning members are requested to attend.


“‘Things Other than Babies and the Kitchen’: Dutch Domesticity and U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Early Cold War”

This is a public lecture by David J. Snyder, Faculty Principal of the Carolina International House and Senior Instructor of History at the University of South Carolina. His work has appeared in Diplomatic History and the sJournal of Cold War Studies as well as other journals and anthologies. He is the co-editor, most recently, of Reasserting America in the 1970s: U.S. Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America’s Image Abroad (University of…


Guest speaker: Joseph Kelly, 2017 Franklin-Liverpool Graduate Research Fellow

Joseph Kelly, a doctoral candidate from the University of Liverpool, will  present his research Tuesday afternoon entitled, "Shareholder Anti-Slavery? Capitalism and Slavery in the Joint-Stock Economy."  Kelly is a 2017 Franklin-Liverpool Graduate Research Fellow. His week-long research stay at UGA is sponsored by the Franklin-Liverpool Graduate Research Fellowship program and Franklin College, and the History Department. The…
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