The Loving Story is a story of love and the struggle for dignity set against a backdrop of historic anti-miscegenation sentiments in the U.S. Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested in July 1958, in Virginia, for violating a state law that banned marriage between people of different races... Dr. Robert Pratt, (UGA, History) will lead a discussion following the film. A native of Essex County, Virginia, Dr. Pratt grew up near the Lovings and frequently played with their children.

Time.com's regular online series Historians explain how the past informs the present recently featured an article by James Cobb on the the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The act, said Cobb, the act "marked a low point in American legislative history." Cobb is Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia.

 

The Chicago Tribune has an article on-line by Stephen Mihm on how "How the silver standard wrecked China's economy". You can view the artcle here. Stephen Mihm is an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, and a contributor to the Bloomberg View.

Dr. Danielle Boaz of UNC Charlotte Africana Studies department will discuss her work on gender and supernatural crimes in the Atlantic World.

A session of the Gender and History Workshop. For information: Leah Richier

Claudio Saunt's book West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (W.W. Norton & Company) is one of only six books vying for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature.  The Cundill award offers one of the largest international prizes today for a book of nonfiction. Saunt is the Richard B.

"Reading Outside the Canon: Some New Thoughts on Medicine in the Time of Galen," Vivian Nutton, a professor of the history of medicine and culture at the First Moscow State Medical School.

Matthew Hulbert's ('15) doctoral dissertation "Guerrilla Memory: Irregular Recollections from the Civil War Borderlands" has won the 2015 Lewis Eldon Atherton Prize from the State Historical Society of Missouri (awarded to the best dissertation in Missouri history or biography).

This is a Throwback Therapies: History of Medical Science Series Lecture by Dr. Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era and co-founder of the Center for Virtual History at UGA.

The lecture focuses on the increasing role of medical science in establishing precise causes of death in the 19th-century U. S., which in turn created a more precise and robust understanding of public health. The data is drawn from two sources—the South's county coroners' office records, 1800-1900 and the federal Mortality Censuses, which began in 1850 and ended in 1890.

Katherine Rohrer will defend her dissertation entitled, "Missionary Mistresses: The Evolution of a New Southern Woman, 1830-1930" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. John Inscoe. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

Award-winning historian Catherine Clinton, author of Mary Lincoln: A Life (HarperCollins, 2009) delivers a short lecture on the myriad tragedies suffered by Mary Lincoln in the aftermath of her husband's murder. Inconsolable in grief, Mary Lincoln was then herself the victim of character assassination in stories that were circulated first by her enemies, then by her biographers and her historians. Come hear the "other half" of the assassination story in the sesquicentennial season of the aftermath of the Civil War.