Free and open to the public.  All films followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.

8:30am: “A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas)” by Anne Lewis. In 1938, Emma Tenayuca led 10,000 pecan shellers in a massive strike. The film recovers stories of working people in Texas and demonstrates the power of labor and liberation.

Free and open to the public. A panel discussion:

Chair: Lane Windham, Georgetown University, author of Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide

• Scott Cooper, Director of Operations, UNITE-HERE
• Tracy Walker, Cook at the Atlanta Airport, Chief Shop Steward
• Isaie Marc, Former Housekeeper at Disney now organizer in Orlando
• Wanda Brown, Bartender Peachtree Hotel in Atlanta/President of Atlanta Chapter of Local 23
• Latoya Colvin, Cook at Fort Benning, President of Columbus Chapter of Local 23

Featuring:

With an introduction by Jay Driskell, author of Hard Work: A History of Sanitation and the Teamsters.

Part of the “Dirty Work” conference (www.southernlaborstudies.org), which is funded by the UGA Department of History, the Provost, the Vice President for Research, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Southern Historical Association, the Southern Labor Archives, and the University of Georgia Press.

Free and open to the public.

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.