Andrew Craig will take his oral comprehensive examinations with his Graduate Advisory Committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Hahamovitch. Members of the university community are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in history before November 15, to ensure adequate seating.

Alec Kraynak will defend his Master's thesis entitled, "Unspoken Rivalries: The State Department and Colonial Capitalism in French Mandate Syria (1930-1944)" on Monday afternoon. The major professor is Dr. Kevin Jones. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

Please join us  for a talk by Ernesto Bassi of Cornell University entitled “Much More than the Half Has Never Been Told: The Rise of Capitalism from New Granada’s Shores.”

Phi Alpha Theta, Inc., Epsilon Pi, UGA's campus chapter of the National History Honor Society, will hold a spring initiation event for new members. New and returning members are requested to attend.

The Georgia Archives invites you to attend our annual history symposium, “Roads, Rails, and Rivers: The History of Transportation in Georgia.”   The symposium celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Georgia Department of Transportation and will feature historians from area universities and institutions speaking about the history of road building, GDOT, streetcars, MARTA, and the historic preservation program at GDOT.  There will also be an exhibit featuring transportation records from the Georgia Archives and a GDOT traveling exhibit.  A tour of the Georgia Archives will

History faculty meeting.

This is a public lecture by David J. Snyder, Faculty Principal of the Carolina International House and Senior Instructor of History at the University of South Carolina. His work has appeared in Diplomatic History and the sJournal of Cold War Studies as well as other journals and anthologies. He is the co-editor, most recently, of Reasserting America in the 1970s: U.S.

Overview 

In October 2015, the Michael C. Carlos Museum debuted "Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection," a major exhibit accompanied by four invited public lectures. Dr. Claudio Saunt's November 10, 2015, lecture explored Georgia's role in Indian Removal policies that expelled 100,000 people from the Southeast in the 1830s.

Presentation Published March 15, 2016.

For graduate students in history. MA student Laura Nelson will present.

Adam Rothman (Assoc. Prof., Georgetown U) will present a guest lecture, "Beyond Freedom's Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery."