In honor of Black History Month, the History Department is hosting two book clubs. The second book club will focus on Martha Jones's Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. Not yet published, students who sign up for this seminar will receive a free copy of a manuscript draft of Jones’s work and will get an in-depth look of how history books are researched, written, and published.

Moderator: Kate Dahlstrand.

Graduate students in the history department are invited to meet informally with our search candidates in modern East Asian history.

Graduate students in the history department are invited to meet informally with our search candidates in modern East Asian history.

Graduate students in the history department are invited to meet informally with our search candidates in modern East Asian history.

Graduate students in the history department are invited to meet informally with our search candidates in modern East Asian history.

A former UGA history prof-- Temple U prof Bryant Simon appears at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library Jan 25 to discuss & sign copies of "Hamlet Fire".

Location:

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library

441 Freedom Pkwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30307

This event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Hoffer will lead our structured writing group in which we will discuss various dilemmas, querks, and strategies pertaining to the art of writing. Grad Students Only.

Dr. Hoffer will lead our structured writing group where we will discuss various dilemmas, quirks, and strategies pertaining to the art of writing. Grad Students Only.

Join us as we celebrate the release of a new book by Daniel Rood: The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean. (Oxford U Press, May 2017)

Natasha Lightfoot, associate professor, Columbia University, will give a talk on the subject of her new book: Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015). Lightfoot secializes in slavery and emancipation studies, and black identities, politics, and cultures in the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History. Her  book focuses on black working class people's everyday forms of freedom in Antigua after emancipation.