In this workshop, Tom Okie will lead an interactive session on what environmental history is, the kinds of questions it raises, and how it expands the toolkit of the historian, with particular reference to the environmental history of the American South. 

Join revered Southern historian John Inscoe for a showing of Mississippi Burning (1988), followed by a discussion of the film’s portrayal of black and white roles in the advancement of Civil Rights.

This event is free and open to the University community.





 

The History Department is pleased to welcome the eight summer History Fellows chosen to participate in an intensive, month-long institute July 5 - 28. Under the direction of Georgia's interdisciplinary faculty, Fellows will conduct archival research, formulate original arguments, and share their findings.

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UGA's Public History Summer Internship Program in Washington, D.C., is currently underway. Check out this summer's interns and find out what they are up to on our Public History Facebook page @UGAPublicHistory.

You can find out more about the summer program in the latest edition of Georgia's Franklin College Chronicles blog -

"Public History Summer Internship Program 2019"

 You are cordially invited to join us for a drop-in reception to celebrate the establishment of the endowment for the Peggy Heard Galis History PhD Apprenticeship at the UGA Press. (With special guest Peggy Heard Galis).

June 17, 5 - 7 pm.

The University of Georgia Press created an endowment to fund a publishing apprenticeship program for students from UGA’s graduate history program. The Peggy Heard Galis History Ph.D. Apprenticeship will allow history Ph.D. candidates to gain insight into and experience in the scholarly publishing process.

The history department, friends and family honored our graduating seniors in history and annual award recipients at a reception May 10 in the Zell Miller Learning Center.

We also presented the first certificates of completion in the new interdisciplinary Museum Studies Certificate Program to three graduating seniors in history.

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Diane Batts Morrow and the intriguing question, what do you mean black Catholic nuns taught in 1830s Baltimore?.  Professor Morrow teaches courses on African American history, and she is the author of Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1862-1860.

Free admission, free pizza.

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Stephen Mihm who presents the question, "Why didn't the U.S. ever go metric?

Can't make this event? @UGAResearch will Livestream this event Tuesday on Instagram!

Professor Mihm teaches courses on the United States in the nineteenth century and the history of capitalism. He is finishing a book on the history of standards and standardization in the United States.

Free admission, free pizza!