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

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.

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. .

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!

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".

Southern Historical Association

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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.

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).

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.