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.

Isabel Mann will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "Benedictine Missionaries and the Intersection of Religion and Race on Skidaway Island, Georgia " on Thursday afternoon. The major professor is Dr. Diane Batts Morrow. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

Zachary Allen will defend his Master's thesis entitled, "The Freedmen's Bureau 1865: The Great Failure of  Labor Contracts and Fixed Wage Rates" on Thursday afternoon. The major professor is Dr. John Inscoe. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

Laura Nelson will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "A 'Miserable Creature' or 'Remarkable Man': Wilkes Flagg and the Ambiguity of Race in Nineteenth-Century Middle Georgia" on Tuesday 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.

It's Graduate Student Appreciation Week! If you are a graduate studnet in history at UGA stop by on your way to class for a slice--we'll have pizza for you today!

It's always time to appreciate our graduate students and teaching and research assistance for their excellence in academics and hard work and support of our classes and programs!To mark the occasion we've got some sweets in the graduate student lounge on Monday, and a piiza lunch for our graduate studnets on Thursday.