The Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council (GHRAC) has selected the M.A. Thesis, "A 'Miserable Creature' or 'Remarkable Man':  Wilkes Flagg and the Ambiguity of Race in Nineteenth-Century Middle Georgia," written by UGA history alumnus Laura E. Nelson (MA history 2018),  to receive the 2018 Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records.

Scott Reynolds Nelson will talk about using Word files and digital folders to manage document workflow for large research projects. Topics will include the flow-documents, place-keepers, and writing-diaries that help a writer maintain focus. He will also discuss using machine-learning tools to improve scholarly serendipity. Sites and applications discussed (but not endorsed) will include FineReaderOnline, Tesseract, Zotero, Google Scholar, Amazon, Academia.edu, and Mendeley.

Doctoral student Terrell Orr's review of the recent book Hog Wild by journalist Lynn Waltz was published this week on the Virginia Pilot. You can check it out online here at https://pilotonline.com/entertainment/books/article_fa1cbcdc-b208-11e8-a8e2-c36a02fabbc7.html. Sep 21, 2018 Updated Sep 22, 2018

The Romance Language Colloquium Series present Dr. Cassia Roth: "Specters of the Womb: Enslaved Women, Childbirth, and Pain in Nineteenth Century Brazil." Dr. Roth is Assistant Professor in History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute.

History faculty only for our monthly meeting.

Please join us on Tuesday, October 29th, at 12:30pm to watch graduate students from the history department audition and compete for the chance to participate in the Lunchtime Time Machine Lecture Series.

Join HGSA for coffee and donuts in the grad lounge between your classes. For graduate students only. 

Join us for an information session on our Public History Internship Program in Washington, D.C.

Program Director Dr. Akela Reason will discuss eligibility requirements, program costs, available courses, and how to apply.

In recent years program students have interned at institutions and historical sites such as the Tudor House, Library of Congress, national Archives, the American Historical Association, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Ford's Theatre, and other sites.

Open to all majors- Graduate and Undergraduate!

The History at Work Speaker Series is dedicated to the ways that you can transform historical thinking into a range of post-college careers. In this session, we talk about one of the best known career moves for history majors — going to law school. Our guests include Logan E. Sawyer III, Associate Professor of Law at UGA (Ph.D. in History and J.D., University of Virginia); Shannon Shipley Hinson, Associate Director of Admissions at the School of Law at UGA (B.A.