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Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the War on the Union

Join us as alum David K. Thomson (Ph.D. '16) discusses his research and new book, Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (University of North Carolina Press, April, 2022). Dr. Thomson is an Assistant Professor of history at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. His forthcoming book, Bonds of War, explores Union bond markets during the American Civil War. This is a free and public event.


A Georgian in Greece: Exploring the Life of John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923)

Join us via Zoom for this special presentation. Professor John W. I. Lee of UC Santa Barbara will discuss his new book, The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert (Oxford University Press 2022), with a particular focus on Gilbert’s community, educational, and scholarly connections in Georgia. John Wesley Gilbert, today recognized as the first professionally trained archaeologist of African American descent, was born…


Made Visible: Collecting and Curating Black Artists at the Georgia Museum of Art

Join us for a talk with Dr. Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art of the Georgia Museum of Art. Shawnya L. Harris, Ph.D. is the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art at the Georgia Museum of Art, where she has worked since 2015. Harris has curated numerous exhibitions including Mary Bendolph: Quilted Memories, Richard Hunt: Synthesis,…


The Linnentown Project, with Hattie Whitehead

Featuring Hattie Whitehead, Co-Chair of the Linnentown Project, with guest Bobby Crook. Hattie Thomas Whitehead is the author of Giving Voice to Linnentown: A Memoir. The Linnentown Project is a community-led initiative to celebrate the history of the historic Athens black neighborhood 'Linnentown' and to educate community stakeholders and decision makers about the legacy and violent impacts of urban renewal on black communities in Athens, GA.…


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…


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…


Gender and Race in Europe Virtual Series: Kira Thurman

The History and Gender Workshop presents a virtual speaker series on Gender and Race in Europe. Please join us for this event featuring Dr. Kira Thurman. 5:00 - 6:30 PM. Thurman will talk about her new book, Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, (Cornell University Press, 2021). Pre-registration is required. A limited number of books by the author and historian will be given at no charge to history…


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 …


September faculty meeting


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…
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