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Capitalist Souths Keynote Lecture: The Global Cowboy

The University of Georgia Department of History and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to welcome the keynote speaker for the Capitalist Souths interdisciplinary graduate student conference Friday, May 21.This conference is part of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Global Georgia Initiative. Historian Dr. Tore Olsson will present the conference keynote address, "The Global Cowboy: Country Music and American Empire in the…


MSP Lecture Series: Should YOU Get Married on a Plantation?

Join us on Tuesday on You Tube Live as UGA history graduate student Sara Small discusses the question - Should YOU get married on a plantation? The use of plantations as wedding and event venues has been a popular trend for years. Rarely, however, do these venues adequately address their troubled histories – or the lived experiences who enslaved people who once lived there. In this lecture, Ms. Small will discuss the plantation venue industry in…


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I've Been Here All the While | Alaina E. Roberts

This is a virtual event. Please join us as Dr. Roberts discusses her recent work. Registration is required: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAud--pqDkuE9TATjJL-TOQrwJyEfHEWhnJ "In I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, historian Alaina E. Roberts tells a riveting story about Indian Territory in the Reconstruction era that illuminates a broader national moment. A descendant of the African Americans, Chickasaws, and white…


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Call for Papers, Presentations, and Performances - History of Slavery at the University of Georgia Symposium on Recognition, Reconciliation, and Redress

Symposium on Recognition, Reconciliation, and Redress April 30 and May 1, 2021 Hybrid Online Format We invite proposals for presentations, research papers, themed sessions, workshops, and performances on the histories of slavery at the University of Georgia to be part of an inaugural symposium on the topic. Scholars, activists, community members, political representatives, artists, educators, students, and practitioners are all welcome to…


Doing Research in Federal Archives, with Jay Driskell

Join us for the presentation and talk, "Doing Research in Federal Archives" with Jay Driskell. Pre-registration is required. Register for the meeting at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sfu2oqjwqG9eccjK1MRGWH_BtprebOwjn. Dr. Jay Driskell is the author of Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black Protest Politics (University Press of Virginia, 2014).  A Yale PhD and former…


Accepted Graduate Student Virtual Open House

The history department is hosting a virtual history open house for newly admitted graduate students! Our online guests are invited to attend and virtually interact with current graduate students and faculty in history for a fun, and casual event. We will have  several sessions, some social, some informational, to help introduce newly admitted graduate students to our graduate faculty and current grad students. Join us and meet the…


Lunchtime Time Machine: "Should you have a plantation wedding?"

The History Department's Lunchtime Time Machine undergraduate talk series presents Sara Small, a Master's student in history, who will discuss the question, "Should you have a plantation wedding?" Reservations are required. To reserve your virtual space, please send an email from your UGA email address with your name to Ms. Cartwright in history, at cilla71@uga.edu. Students of all majors are invited. This is an FYO event. We've gone virtual!…
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