Stephen Mihm's latest column on the Bloomberg view "Paid Family Leave's Conservative Lineage" discusses conservative roots of family leave. Stephen Mihm is a regular contributor to Bloomberg View, and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at UGA.

Deborah Lipstadt, one of the world's leading scholars on modern Jewish history, will present a University Lecture,"The Holocaust: An American Understanding 1945-2015" Thursday, Oct. 22, in the Chapel.

Lipstadt is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University.

Academy Award winner Hilary Swank is set to play Lipstadt in a movie based on Lipstadt’s book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.

Free and open to the public.

The Southern Historical Associations holds it's 81st meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas. Featuring "Justice after the Civil Rights Movement." See the SHA website for panelist and presenter information.

Congratulations to Jim Cobb (history prof and alum) who received a 2015 Governor’s Award for the Arts and Humanities from Gov. Nathan Deal October 6th. 

Graduate students are having a book sale! Wednesday and Thursday this week, 9am - 4pm. Stop by and browse the selection. Books of all genres, paperback and hardback - novels, non-fiction, children's, cookbooks, etc.

All proceeds benefit the history graduate student association and events.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Peabody-winning historian, TV personality and Harvard University professor, will present the sixth Peabody-Smithgall Lecture on Oct. 26 at 3 p.m. at the historic Morton Theatre in downtown. The event is presented by the University of Georgia's Peabody Awards. Gates' lecture, "Genealogy, Genetics and Race," is free and open to the public. For more information.

Presenting original research at an academic conference can be an incredibly rewarding experience. While the extra line on your CV certainly does not hurt, the feedback that you receive is often as illuminating as it is invaluable. Preparing for a conference can be a bit challenging, though, especially when it comes time to condense a 35-40-page research paper or thesis chapter into a 15-20 minute presentation. This month’s PDW will focus on how to best prepare for academic conferences.

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.