Veterans Thomas McShea, and Kate Dahlstrand, who are also graduate students in history, are working on the UGA Student Veterans Oral History Project and recording a collection of stories from student veterans. UGA Columns online newspaper just released several articles on the project, the first of which discusses the oral history project and is linked here. (We will follow soon with the articles on Kate and Thomas.)

Join us Thursday, February 6 at 12:30pm as Sarah Handley-Cousins shares insights from her latest book, Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North.

Please email Annelle Brunson with any questions.

This event is free and open to the public.

With support from the Gregory Chair/Professor of the Civil War Era.

Faculty and student researchers—led by Chana Kai Lee, an associate professor of history and African American studies in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences—will analyze primary sources and archaeological data related to the history of slavery at the university...

The research initiative, which is supported by private funds from the Office of the President, is expected to be completed by June 30, 2021.

A first-year doctoral student in public history (pictured left--in the desert with a friend), Maggie Neel is the recipient of a competitive Graduate School Research Fellowship. She was interviewed recently by another first year doctoral student, Valerie McLaurin:

Have you always been interested in history? What brought you to do a PhD in history?

The Gender, Race, and Sexuality Group has invited historian Antwain Hunter (Butler University) to campus this February to share his research on the history of black gun ownership.  We'll be reading both a paper and two complementary articles suggested by Dr. Hunter. Join us Friday, February 7 at 3:30pm in 320 LeConte Hall to workshop Dr. Hunter’s paper.

All are welcome! Please RSVP Annelle Brunson for the readings if you would like to attend. Accommodations available upon request.

All UGA graduate students are welcome to join us Thursday, February 6 at 10:00am for a coffee-hour roundtable with visiting scholar Sarah Handley-Cousins! This is a great opportunity to ask questions about the history of medicine, disability studies, and gender theory, as well as the larger field of American Civil War scholarship and 19th century U.S. history.

Please email Annelle Brunson with any questions!

Want to learn about digital forms available to historians? Interested in bringing digital humanities into history? Ready to reach a broader audience? Join us Thursday, February 6 at 4:00pm in DIGILab to hear from four leading historians who have each explored a different facet of digital history.

Please contact Cassia Roth or Annelle Brunson with any questions!

This event is free and open to the public.

RSVP only to Dr. Berry for history graduate students.

Dr. Hale's visit is sponsored by the Gregory Chair of the Civil War Era.

Dr. Grace Hale is Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia. She will speak on her paper, "The Lyncher in the Family: Reckoning with My Mississippi Grandfather and the Intimate History of White Supremacy."

This installment of the Department of History's undergraduate lecture series features Alexandra Velez, a Master's student in history and winner of this year's grad student LTTM competition.

Free admission, free lunch! (Box lunches will be distributed at the end of the talk)

This event , Reservations required - email our Main Office cilla71@uga.edu or call 706 542-2053 to reserve your space.

Please wear a face covering.