Stephen Mihm's column on Bloomberg View this week brings us "This Isn't the First U.S. Opiate-Addiction Crisis: Doctors overprescribed painkillers in the 19th century. Eventually, they stopped."

You can follow Stephen Mihm on Twitter at @smihm

A new article on Bloomberg View online this week by Stephen Mihm relates how summer vacations bacame 'a thing' in the U.S.

"How Summer Vacation Took Hold in the U.S. A preacher's bestselling book convinced the emerging middle class to escape the cities. Horace Mann finished the job."

An Associate Professor of History, Mihm is a contributor to the Ticker at Bloomberg View and author of A Nation of Counterfeiters and Crisis Economics (with Nouriel Roubini).

History alum Keri Leigh Merritt's opinion letter "Let the Historians Speak", appeared in the New York Times July 14. A rebuttal to a previous article in June which has garned a lot of response by historians - "Historians Shouldn’t Be Pundits" by Moshik Temkin June 26, 2017.

Emeritus Professor of History James Cobb gives his own informed, expert and usually irreverent take on the current controversies about confederate iconography, presenting some historical perspective, on his blog Cobbloviate.

We already know MA history student Kathryn Veale is amazing, now everyone knows because she's profiled on the UGA home page. A 2015 graduate of our BA history program, Kathryn previously served as president of UGA's chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, revitalizing our local chapter while excelling in her academic work. She is currently finishing up her M.A. Thesis and graduate certificate in historic preservation - read more here..."Our MA student Kathryn Veale is Amazing,"   #UGAhistory

"From Georgia to California and Back: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Southern Gold Mining," Drew Swanson (UGA PhD history, 2010), history professor at Wright State University.

Gold nuggets, historic maps, photographs, postcards and other artifacts help tell the story of Georgia’s antebellum gold rush, which preceded the frenzy in California by two decades, in an exhibit at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Derek Bentley will defend his doctoral dissertation, "Democratic Openings: Organized Business, Conservative Protest, and Political-Economic Transformation in Mexico, 1970-1986" in Rm. 112, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Institute, 290 S. Hull Street. The Major Professor is Dr. Pamela Voekel. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office to ensure adequate seating.

The history department's new graduate student meeting is required for all new graduate students in history.

8:30 AM -12:00 PM. All new graduate teaching and laboratory assistants who will have instructional responsibilities during 2017-2018 are required to attend this orientation as per University TA Policy.

9:00 Am - 12:00 PM. REQUIRED for all new graduate students in history. Complete information about the Orientation and Information Fair is on the Graduate School website .  Please email Judy Milton, jmilton@uga.edu, with any questions.