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Stephen Mihm's latest column on the Bloomberg view "Paid Family Leave's Conservative Lineage" discusses conservative roots of family leave.

Congratulations to Jim Cobb (history prof and alum) who received a 2015 Governor’s Award for the Arts and Humanities from Gov. Nathan Deal October 6th. 

Time.com's regular online series Historians explain how the past informs the present recently featured an article by James Cobb on the the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Claudio Saunt's book West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (W.W.