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.

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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.

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.

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. .