Avid Bookshop presents author Claudio Saunt (in conversation with the director of UGA's Willson Center, Nicholas Allen) for Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. This is a virtual event taking place on Thursday, October 22, 2020, from 7pm - 8pm EST via Zoom.

The History of Capitalism Reading Group will be discussing Laura Phillips Sawyer’s American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the “New Competition,” 1890­–1940. This will also be our second meeting with an author.

Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers, associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss her book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale U Press, 2020).

This talk will occur remotely via Zoom. 

Dr. Tamara Walker will join us to discuss her most recent book, Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima (Cambridge, 2017).

The School of Public and International Affairs invites you to our annual Constitution Day lecture in celebration of the day that Constitutional Convention representatives in Philadelphia completed and signed the United States Constitution in 1787.

This will be the first virtual meeting for 2020-21 of the Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group. Topics and discussion will vary based on collaborative input from history graduate students. Check back for updates and future events!

Please contact Ally Velez or Valerie McLaurin for an invitation link.

Fall 2020 classes begin. Drop/Add August 20 - 26.

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us on Friday, September 18 at 3:30 PM to discuss the paper “Two Coffee Colonies: Environment, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery in Suriname and St. Domingue, 1750-1790” with its author, Rafael Marquese, Professor in the Department of History at the Universidade de São Paulo.