Image: The History Department is delighted to announce a new endowed lecture series in African American History and War & Society. The Morrow Lecture will be given annually on a rotating basis by distinguished scholars of African American History or the History of War and Society. The lecture series is endowed by John and Diane Morrow, two beloved professors who recently retired after years of dedicated scholarship, teaching, and service to the University of Georgia History Department. Dr. John H. Morrow, Jr. is an eminent scholar of European and American military history and the author of numerous books, including The Great War: An Imperial History (Routledge, 2005) and Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality (University Press of Kansas, 2014), co-authored with Jeffrey T. Sammons. Dr. Diane Batts Morrow is a distinguished scholar of African American women’s history and religious history and the author Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1862-1860 (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). The inaugural Morrow Lecture will take place on January 20, 2026, kicking off our long Black History Month slate of events. Dr. Matthew F. Delmont will give a lecture based on his recent book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (Viking Press, 2022). Half American is the definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, and the talk will represent an ideal opening for the Morrow Lecture series. Matthew Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African American history and the history of civil rights, he is the author of four books: Black Quotidian, Why Busing Failed, Making Roots, and The Nicest Kids in Town. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, NPR, and several academic journals. Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Delmont earned his B.A from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University. Dr. Kevin Jones Head, Department of History
