The Dirty History workshop provides a space for the further development of interdisciplinary, historically-grounded scholarship around issues of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. This month's session features Thomas Rogers, Associate Professor of History at Emory University, whose paper is part of a book project about Proálcool, Brazil's national alcohol-production program. The workshop is open to the public. For a copy of the paper, contact Dr. Dan Rood. 

     Join us for our first Athens Illuminated lecture of the Spring semester. This semester our local Athens history lecture series will focus on Native American history. Don't miss out on this great lecture by Dr. Jace Weaver from the Religion department and free pizza!

It's Transfer Student Welcome Day at UGA! If you are a new history major at UGA this semester, please stop by to meet our new advisor Ms. Couch. All new students are welcome to stop by with any questions, or transfer credit evaluation queries, etc. 8:30am - 4pm LeConte Hall, Rm. 125 - Jessica Couch, or Rm. 211 - Laurie Kane.

Welcome to UGA from the History Department

The death of Fidel Castro on November 25, 2016 marked the end of one of the world’s most influential people. Leaving behind a legacy mired in international sanctions, political imprisonments, human and civil rights abuses while simultaneously achieving universal healthcare, the right to employment for the Cuban people and close to a 100% literacy rate. Described by many as a dictator, he was also hailed, as Richard Gott described him, as a “world hero in the mould of Garibaldi” for many people of the developing world.

POP-UP EXHIBIT AND RECEPTION: War and Commemoration at UGA: Civil War to 9/11.

Presented by students from HIST 4027/6027.

Please join us 12-3pm, rooms 258, 268 UGA Special Collections Library.

A discussion and book signing featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Princeton University), author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, and Heather Thompson (University of Michigan), author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.

This event is jointly sponsored by the Department of History, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Institute for African American Studies, and the Departments of Sociology and Political Science. 

Drop/Add for all students is January 5-11.

No classes - UGA offices are closed today.

 

Join us the Monday after Thanksgiving for: The 2016 Election in Historical Perspective: A Panel Discussion.

The university community is invited.

Sponsored by the history department.