Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, September 6th at 3:30 in 320 LeConte to discuss the paper “Community Action: Social Change Through Participatory Research” with its author, Loka Ashwood, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University.

Join us in celebrating the release of Michael Winship's latest book, Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America. (Yale U Press.)

"a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America.--"

Rebecca J. Scott will present a guest lecture at the UGA Law School entitled: "The House on Bitterness Street: Maternity, Slavery, and a Fragile Freedom." 

Please join us for the inaugural lecture of the Transnational European History Seminar. Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University will speak on, "Affirmative Action and the End of Empires". Shepard is the Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Voices of Decolonization: A Brief History with Documents and The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France. 

This is a free and public event.

Press Release: Pritzker Military Museum & Library Announces 2019 Literature Award Recipient

John Morrow, Jr. wins $100,000 prize for lifetime achievement in military writing.

The History Summer Fellows Institute in partnership with Geovani Ayala at the University of Georgia Graduate School invites the community to a panel on “Diversity at UGA,” from a range of perspectives and connections to the University. On the panel will be Terry College of Business professor Dawn Bennett-Alexander, Kennesaw State University assistant professor of history and GWST and UGA History alumna La Shonda Mims (PhD 2012), and UGA GAPS treasurer Kellie Murphy.

Come learn about the research projects of our 2019 History Summer Fellows: Daniela Aguirre, Tia Coleman, Jacob Finegan, TiBerni Hall, Raven Manygoats, Denise Marion, Braden Pollet and Jaslynn Ware!

This event is free and open to the public. 

Light refreshments will be served, 3-5 PM.





 

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.