Heritage Foundation to present brown bag on Baldwin Hall

Contact: Kimberly Davis 404-906-6176

 Athens, Ga.-- The Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation (ACHF) will host a Brown Bag Lunch about the slave remains found during an expansion at the University of Georgia’s Baldwin Hall. 

Below Baldwin - a student documentary

 The doc will be screened this Tuesday in the Tate Theatre at 7 pm (https://www.facebook.com/events/1642983295824929/). View the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/266973088.

Our 2017-18 Graduate Student Award ceremony was held Monday April 23, in Demosthenian Hall. Congratulation to our award recipients and graduating students!

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The following students are graduates of our Master's and Doctoral programs in history for 2017-18:

Zachary Allen (MA)          

Paloma Carroll (MA)

Hunter Hellwig (MA)

Gabriell Johnson-Cameron (MA)

Isabel Mann (MA)

Laura Nelson (MA)

Emma Rountree (MA)

Charles Sills (MA)

Students in Prof. Soper's crime and punishment class are setting up their own pop-up exhibit, on display at the Russell Special Collections Building, Room 285, on Friday, April 27 from 1 to 2:30.  The title of the exhibit is "Unlocking Georgia:  Law, Crime, and Punishment."  Stop by and see the great items the students have found in our special collections!

NEH Announces $18.6 Million for 199 Humanities Projects Nationwide - grant awards support advanced scholarly research, the documentation of endangered languages, humanities programs for veterans, and the preservation of historic collections.

Lauren Titley will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "'Property in Humans': Slaves as meubles and Inherent Difficulties" on Thursday morning. The major professor is Dr. Jennifer Palmer. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

Stephen Mihm's latest article on the on-line Bloomberg View says that "A 19th-century statute seems to bar Trump from sending soldiers to beef up border security. But it's too feeble."

Read the entire article here.

"Why Martin Luther King Had a 75 Percent Disapproval Rating in the Year of His Death. His Crusade to Confront Economic Injustice and the Vietnam War Angered Whites, While Younger Black Activists Had Lost Patience With His Nonviolent Tactics."

By James C. Cobb | April 4, 2018

Student on-line history course evaluations are available April 19 - May 1, 2019 at eval.franklin.uga.edu. Evaluations may be submitted during this time prior to the first day of final exams, at which time submissions will be closed. This is for history courses taught by the department of history.

Paloma Carroll will defend her Master's thesis entitled, ""A White Man's County" Racial Violence, Vigilante Terrorism, and Black Flight in Forsyth County, Georgia" on Tuesday afternoon. The major professor is Dr. Scott Reynolds Nelson. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.