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History Faculty Meeting

Monthly faculty meeting for faculty members in history. The meeting this month will be in Rm. 221.


History Department and Graduate Student Annual Awards

The History Department will hold our annual departmental award ceremony and reception for history graduate students, staff and faculty at Demosthenian Hall. BBQ Dinner will be provided(with vegetarian alternative). History faculty, staff, MA and PhD students should RSVP to history@uga.edu by April 15, 2017.


Douglas A. Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II"

David Blackmon will present his talk Thursday at UGA's Dean Rusk Hall.  He spent more than two decades as a daily newspaper reporter and bureau chief and won his first Pulitzer Prize for The Wall Street Journal staff's breaking news coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "Slavery by Another Name," published in 2008, won the Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction book category. It documents the widespread incidence of African-…


Civil Rights Historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin: "‘The Civil Rights Queen': Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America."

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the Daniel P. S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law and a professor of history at Harvard University, will present "‘The Civil Rights Queen': Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America." The Donald L. Hollowell Lecture annually brings to UGA a national or international expert in the areas of civil and human rights or social and economic sustainability. The lecture is co-sponsored by…


Visiting lecturer Peter Wood: “Did you ever hear ‘bout de Andersonville prison in Georgia?”

 A fresh sesquicentennial look at a familiar Civil War topic--Peter Wood (Professor Emeritus, Duke U) is an American historian and author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974). It has been described as one of the most influential books on southern U.S. history of the past 50 years. The university community is invited to attend. Sponsored by the Department of History.


Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Kathleen Nehls

Kathleen Nehls will defend her dissertation entitled, "Red-Tape Fraternities: State-building in the Age of Associationalism, 1870-1935" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Paul Sutter. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture: James Cobb

The Phinizy Lectures rank as UGA's most distinguished lecture series in the humanities. This year's lecture is etitled "Divided by a Common Past: Southerners and the Struggle to Secure Their Version of History", presented by James C. Cobb, B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Research Professor in the History of the American South. Cobb is an expert in the history and culture of the American South and has written and lectured extensively on these…


"Been in the Storm So Long: Remembering 1864 and 1964 in 2014"

Georgia Public Broadcasting's Rickey Bevington hosts a stellar line-up of local scholars, poets, artists, and musicians in a far-reaching roundtable discussion of the coincident anniversaries of the 1864 Battles of Atlanta and 1964 Civil Rights Act. Panelists include Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey; artist Robert Morris; singer-songwriter Caroline Herring; and historians Robert Pratt, Brett Gadsden and Joseph Crespino. Featuring Robert Morris's…


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