Global Georgia Initiative/ Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture: Stephanie McCurry – “Reconstructing: A Georgia Woman’s Life Amidst the Ruins”

The Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture Series presents Stephanie McCurry, the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University.  Professor McCurry is the author of Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country (Oxford U. Press, 1997) and Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Harvard U Press, 2010).

Constitution Day at UGA

The American Founding Group and the School of Public and International Affairs will host a celebration of Constitution Day. The centerpiece of these festivities is a lecture by Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College & the Graduate Center, City University of New York. The lecture and moderated question and answer session will be followed by a dessert reception in Candler Hall. In addition, historical documents and materials related to the American founding and U.S.