Please join us for this semester’s Franklin-Liverpool graduate lecture by Richard Smith:"Opposing Pinochet in 1980s - the Vergara Toledo family and the story behind the 'Day of the Young Combatant' in Chile”. 

Richard Smith is a Franklin-Liverpool Graduate Research Fellow. His week-long research stay at UGA is sponsored by the Franklin-Liverpool Graduate Research Fellowship program and Franklin College, and the History Department.

Professor Diane Batts Morrow spoke earlier this week at Mount Saint Mary College on the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first African American Roman Catholic sisterhood and their resilience and religious devotion throughout the Civil War. You can read the entire article from the Mount Saint Mary College news web site.

This roundtable discussion of interpretations and misinterpretations of Luther's 95 Theses in the five centuries since 1517 features Jonathan Strom (Emory University), Alex Sager (Germanic and Slavic Studies), Jodie Lyon (Religious Studies), Pastor Gregory Michael (Christus Victor Lutheran Church), and Pastor Nathan Hilkert (Holy Cross Lutheran Church). 

This event is sponsored by the Transnational European Studies program, the History Department, and Germanic and Slavic Studies.

The university community is invited. Light refreshments will be served.

This installment features Dr. Akela Reason, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at UGA and Director of UGA’s Public History Internship program in Washington, DC. Dr. Reason explains what public historian do and how to become one. Find out about the many paths to becoming a public historian and the diverse career options.

History at work is an ongoing series sponsored by the Department of History at UGA. Each episode a different speaker presents career options for history majors and those interested in the careers and work of historians.

The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel, November 9-12, 2017. Please note that this year’s meeting runs from Thursday through Sunday. See the web site for more information.

HGSA Book Sale. Hardcovers $2- Paperbacks $1. Proceeds to go to HGSA and Samaritan's Purse international relief for Puerto Rico efforts.

HGSA Book Sale- Hardbooks-$2- Paperbacks $1. Proceeds go to HGSA and Samaritan's Purse Puerto Rico international relief efforts.

The UGA at Oxford program is excited to be hosting Dr Ian Archer of Keble College, Oxford, here in Athens this October 10th-15th. Dr Archer will be here for the UGA at Oxford Homecoming Tailgate and the program will be celebrating his 25 years of teaching for the UGA at Oxford program, particularly in the fields of Tudor-Stuart England and the Renaissance & Reformation. His lecture in the afternoon on Thursday, October 12, which will be titled, "The Transformation of London, 1550-1700."

Popular history intructor Kevin Jones is profiled on the latest edition of Columns online in "Professor brings passion for Middle East history, discovery to classroom". Jones teaches the first half of 20th-century Iraqi history, through 1963.

complete article here - How College Endowments Learned to Love Risk

This week, Harvard is moping about its 8 percent investment return. Blame McGeorge Bundy.

by Stephen Mihm