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Constitution Day Lecture

On Friday, September 17, 2021, the American Founding Group and the School of Public and International Affairs will host a celebration of Constitution Day. The centerpiece of these festivities will be a lecture open to the public entitled “On Juneteenth: History, Memory, the Present and the Future” by Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On Juneteenth.

Lunchtime Time Machine: How Did We Double Human Life Expectancy?

Our ever-popular Lunchtime Time Machine talk series presents Dr. Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era as he explores the question "How did we double human life expectancy?" Berry feels compelled to study "old, unhappy, far-off things." A historian of mortality, his research explores the intersections of race, class, gender, family, violence, and death in the nineteenth-century South.

All majors are welcome.

Free admission, free history, and free pizza!

Lunchtime Time Machine: How Did Medieval Chinese Paintings Open Up Portals to Other Worlds?

The Department of History’s undergraduate Lunchtime Time Machine series is back for spring, and our first episode features Dr. Ari Levine, Horace Montgomery Professor of History. Levine will do his best to answer the question - How Did Medieval Chinese Paintings Open Up Portals to Other Worlds? Join us to find his answer!

History at Work: Museums and Educators

The History at Work Speaker Series explores the many ways of putting a history degree to use after college. This episode features history and Double Dawg alum and Museum Educator Isabel Mann.

As a museum educator and digital specialist, Mann designs educational resources and facilitates a wide range of programs related to World War II and the Holocaust. 

Pizza will be served to attendees. All majors are welcome!

Lunchtime Time Machine: Were Civil War Soldiers Sometimes Coerced into Fighting?

Join us for a guest episode of our Lunchtime Time Machine, featuring Peter Carmichael, Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College.

Dr. Carmichael's academic interests include 19th-century US history, Civil War and Reconstruction, southern history, public history and cultural history. Carmichael’s most recent book, The War for the Common Soldier, was published by University of North Carolina Press in November 2018 as part of the Littlefield History of the Civil War Era series.

Lunchtime Time Machine: Was the Black railway legend John Henry a real person?

Join us for another episode of the Lunchtime Time Machine, featuring Dr. Scott Reynolds Nelson.

Professor Nelson writes about 19th-century US history including the history of slavery and Reconstruction. He also writes about international finance, the history of science, and global commodities. In his spare time he reads science fiction and drinks too much espresso.

Lunchtime Time Machine: What Does Race Have to Do with Buried Bones in the Medical College of Georgia?

Join us for another episode of the Lunchtime Time Machine, featuring Nan McMurry, as we try to determine "What Does Race Have to Do with Buried Bones in the Medical College of Georgia?"

In addition to being head of the Collection Development department in the UGA Libraries, Dr. McMurry teaches a course on the history of medicine each fall.

Free history, and free pizza! The university community is invited.

This is an FYO event.

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