Please join us for a book signing, reception, and celebration of Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic, a volume in the series Early Modern Americas (U Penn Press, 2016), by Dr. Jennifer L. Palmer of the Department of History.

The UGA chapter of the National History Honor Society is holding the 2016 induction ceremony this evening. The ceremony for the induction of new members will be followed by a general meeting. All members are encourage to attend. 

Refreshments will be provided.

from the Georgia Historical Society:

On October 21, 2016, the Georgia Historical Society will present the John Macpherson Berrien Award for lifetime achievement to Dr. John C. Inscoe, the Albert B. Saye Professor of History and University Professor at the University of Georgia.

Athens, GA: The Southern Historical Association is pleased to announce the winner of the 2016 C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize: Matthew C. Hulbert, author of “Guerrilla Memory: Irregular Recollections from the Civil War Borderlands” written under the direction of John Inscoe at the University of Georgia.

In this Sixth Annual Gregory Distinguished Lecture, Don H. Doyle, McCausland Professor of History, University of South Carolina, discusses his recent prize-winning book, The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War.

Sponsored by the History Department and the Amanda and Greg Gregory Graduate Studies Support Fund.

Graduate students in the history program and other students with a course background in history (MEd SSED, MPH etc.) are invited to meet with Dr. Reason to discuss our Public History in DC program. Graduate students are invited to bring questions.

For graduate and undergraduate students -- join us for an information session about UGA’s program in public history in Washington, DC this summer! Students will spend the entire summer living in Washington, DC while interning at major cultural and historical institutions. During Maymester, students participate in a course on American Museums, Parks, and Monuments, which will be taught (mostly) on the Washington Mall with an extended excursion to Mount Vernon.

Phi Alpha Theta Epsilon Pi presents a lecture series about the sometimes forgotten aspects of Athens' local history. From historic markers to street and building names, our surrounding landscape may appear to present a white-washed history. However, just beneath the surface is a plurality of perspectives and voices. Each of the three Athens Illuminated lectures will focus on Athens' people or places in order to help bring to light some of this past.

Dianne Harris is Dean of the College of Humanities and professor of history at the University of Utah. She holds a doctorate in architectural history from the University of California, Berkeley and is best known for her scholarly contributions to the study of “race and space” – the relationship between the built environment and construction of racial and class identities.

The History at Work Speaker Series invites former history majors, minors, and advocates to discuss how they have transformed historical thinking into post-college careers, and to show current majors how to think about the strengths and possibilities of their own training.