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Disability and the American Civil War

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.


GRS Visiting Scholar Workshop: Antwain Hunter on black gun ownership

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…


Exploring Digital Histories Panel

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.


History Guest Lecture: Grace Hale (U Virginia)

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…


Save the Date: 10th Annual Gregory Distinguished Lecture (time TBA)

The 10th annual Gregory Lecture, delivered by Peter Carmichael, Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, will be October 22, 2020 and will kickoff the "Historicizing the Self: Emotions and Cognition in U.S. History" conference. This is a free and public event. Lecture topic and details to be announced.


Lecture: Dr. Hilary Green, The Hallowed Grounds Project

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Hilary Green entitled, "The Hallowed Grounds Project: Slavery, Memory and Engagement at the University of Alabama." Dr. Hilary N. Green is an Associate Professor of History and Co-Program Director of African American Studies in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the  University of Alabama. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010, her M.A. in…


Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture: Lawrence Wright, "The Future of Terrorism"

Lawrence Wright will visit the University of Georgia to give the Department of History’s Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, “The Future of Terrorism.”  Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of six previous books of nonfiction, including In the New World, Remembering Satan, The Looming Tower, Going Clear, Thirteen Days in September, The Terror Years, and one novel, God’s Favorite. His books have received many prizes…


Faculty Book Release: Peter Hoffer's "The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution"

Join us in celebrating the release of Peter Hoffer's latest book, The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950-1975, (U Chicago Press, 2019). Peter Hoffer is a Distinguished Research Professor at UGA. In 2016, the University Press of Kansas released his Rutgers v. Waddington: Alexander Hamilton, The End of the War for Independence, and the Origins of Judicial Review. Later in that year, his co-authored The Federal Courts…


Mary Ellen Curtin: Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin: “Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America,” Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin, associate professor of history at American University. The lecture will explore the history of forced labor as legal punishment for men and women, black and white.   The event is co-sponsored by Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Department of…


(CANCELLED) Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, April 3rd, at 3:30 PM to discuss a paper (topic to be announced) with its author, Rachel Schurman, Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, University of Minnesota. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.
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