Stphen Mihm, contributor to Bloomberg View, has a new article out noting how Jeff Sessions goes medieval--literally--with his revival of civil forfeiture. Finding guilt in inanimate objects is far from a new concept, notes Mihm, who relates the path of civil forfeiture still used today to claim assets in the “War on Drugs”. Read the entire article here on the Bloomberg View.

UGA alum Keri Leigh Merritt has a new article on the Moyers & Company web site looking at the relationship of economics and power and its roles in politics and political support. You can read the entire article here on Bill Moyers.com.

Sherri Sheu, an environmental historian and doctoral student at the University of Colorado-Boulder, is the recipient of a 2017 Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship. Sheu graduated with a bachelor's degree in history at the University of Georgia, where she was active in Phi Alpha Theta, Inc. and instrumental in the creation of a studnet conference while she was an undergraduate.

Congratulations to James C. Thompson, a recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Germany in journalism. James recently graduated (UGA ’17) Summa Cum Laude with Highest Honors and degrees in both history and digital and broadcast journalism from the University of Georgia, in addition to earning a minor in German.

M. Todd Bennett, a graduate of UGA's Ph.D. program in history (2001), has been named as one of just 28 NEH Public Scholars for 2017-2018. Bennett's NEH grant is for his book project entitled, "Howard Hughes, the CIA, and the Untold Story Behind Their Hunt for a Sunken Soviet Submarine." The book explores intelligence oversight and accountability though a narrative account of the covert 1974 CIA operation to use Howard Hughes’s ship Glomar Explorer to raise a sunken Soviet submarine.

Congratulations to Isabel Mann, who is completing her summer internship with the Athens Land Trust.  Isabel is a triple major honors student at UGA expected to graduate in 2018. She is currently earning her bachelor's degree in history and religion, while also earning her master's degree in history in a special honors prgram.