Lyndon House Arts Center Brown Bag Lunch: Confederate Monuments: Context & Controversy from the Lyndon House: Dr. Akela Reason "will discuss the history and construction of Confederate monuments and memorials during the next Brown Bag Luncheon hosted by the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation. Read more about Lyndon House Arts Center Brown Bag Lunch: Confederate Monuments: Context & Controversy
The German Election and Why it Matters: A Roundtable Discussion With Chancellor Angela Merkel up for a fourth term amid challenges from the Social Democrats and the populist Alternative for Germany, the election of September 24 holds the potential to reshape German politics. The Transnational European Studies program, the Germanic and Slavic Studies department, and SPIA present this roundtable discussion of the elections in Germany and Europe, 2016-17. Speakers include Alex Sager (Germanic and Slavic Studies), Markus Crepaz (SPIA), Cas Mudde (SPIA), and Jan Uelzmann (Georgia Tech). Refreshments will follow the event. Read more about The German Election and Why it Matters: A Roundtable Discussion
The Athens Historical Society presents "CSI Dixie: The View from the American South's County Coroner's Offices, 1800 - 1900" Join us for an Athens Historical Society presentation on, CSI Dixie: The View from the American South's County Coroner's Offices, 1800 - 1900, as Dr. Stephen Berry provides a glimpse into Victorian-era coroner's inquests, some of richest records we have of life and death in the nineteenth century South. Using extant coroners' inquests for the state of South Carolina between 1800 and 1900, Dr. Berry will explore how race, place, gender, profession, behavior, and good and bad luck played large roles in how our forebears exited this world. . Read more about The Athens Historical Society presents "CSI Dixie: The View from the American South's County Coroner's Offices, 1800 - 1900"
Service Day at Gospel Pilgrim As we start getting ready to head back to classes and Athens after Spring Break, think about serving the Athens' community! Join Friends of Gospel Pilgrim, a UGA student service organization, THIS Saturday, April 21st for a service day from 9-12. A historic African American cemetery in Athens, Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery is in great need of care and maintenance so please help us preserve this integral piece of our history! Read more about Service Day at Gospel Pilgrim
The Gregory Distinguished Lecture: Craig Steven Wilder The Annual Gregory Distinguished Lecture series presents Craig Steven Wilder, the author of Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities (2014). His talk will be on "Slavery and Universities in Revolutionary America". Read more about The Gregory Distinguished Lecture: Craig Steven Wilder
UGA Alumni Angela Elder is the C. Vann Woodward Award Winner for 2017 Southern Historical Association thesha.org Press Release: Southern Historical Association announces C. Vann Woodward Award Winner for 2017 Athens, GA: The Southern Historical Association (SHA) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize: Angela Esco Elder, author of “Married to the Confederacy: The Emotional Politics of Confederate Widowhood,” written under the direction of Stephen Berry at the University of Georgia. Read more about UGA Alumni Angela Elder is the C. Vann Woodward Award Winner for 2017
History of Capitalism Reading Group The History of Capitalism Reading Group will begin meeting again this month! Come to read and discuss the theory and history of capitalism from a critical perspective. We will be reading The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James and the introductory essay from the recently published collection The Black Jacobins Reader (Duke, 2017). Read more about History of Capitalism Reading Group
Info Session: Public History Summer Internship Program in Washington, DC Want to learn about our public history internship program? Join us Monday for free Pizza and the answers to all of your burning questions on how to apply, how to pay for this valuable summer semester in Washington, DC, how to get a public history internship, and much more. Read more about Info Session: Public History Summer Internship Program in Washington, DC
September Meeting, The Rest of the Story Book Club Have you ever visited an exhibit and felt you only heard the first part of a truly great story? Read more about September Meeting, The Rest of the Story Book Club
The U.S. in the First World War: Richard Shawn Faulkner – “Mud, Blood, and Dysentery: The Doughboy’s Life in Battle” Richard Shawn Faulkner will give a talk on “Mud, Blood, and Dysentery: The Doughboy’s Life in Battle” as part of The U.S. in the First World War, a lecture series commemorating the centennial of the entrance of the United States into World War I, sponsored by the department of history and the Willson Center. Read more about The U.S. in the First World War: Richard Shawn Faulkner – “Mud, Blood, and Dysentery: The Doughboy’s Life in Battle”
