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Tom Denenberg, Director of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, will give a talk on “Modernizing Shelburne Museum.”    The Shelburne Museum is a remarkable museum complex situated on the Lake Champlain in Vermont.  From paintings to toys to an actual (landlocked) steamboat, Shelburne has it all.

This is a free and public event.

Please join us as the students in Dr. Cassia Roth's HIST/LACS 3210 Race and Slavery in the Americas will be present their original research on Tuesday in the Special Collections Library.

International Student Life is excited to share an upcoming Tea Talk -

Dr. Hahamovitch will be presenting and participating in a Q&A session on this month’s Tea Talks event on Thursday, Nov. 21st from 3-4:30pm in the Tate Intersection: “Challenges Facing Immigrant Workers Around the World”.

Karyna Hlyvynska will defend her doctoral dissertation, "'Putting the Machine in Motion': How the U.S. Treasury Department Built a Fiscal-Military State" on Tuesday. The major professor is Dr. Scott Nelson. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

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.