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History at UGA

Exploring the study of our past as we prepare for our future.

Why study History?

History at UGA

 

The University of Georgia Department of History grants the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. The department has a strong tradition of expertise in subjects ranging from early American to modern African American history, the Caribbean to the Middle East, early modern Europe to the modern U.S. South, popular culture to foreign policy, religion to global capitalism. Faculty members have won numerous teaching and scholarly awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Fulbright Awards, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowships, a Pulitzer Prize in History, a Bancroft Prize, a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award, and many others.

 

Latest News

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The New History Film Series

Watch history come alive, and see the past unfold! This film series is designed to provoke curiosity and get you wondering about how the historian’s craft can leap out of books and onto the silver screen.
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History student work featured in the Classic Journal

The newest issue of The Classic Journal showcases an unprecedented number of articles by our history majors. The Classic Journal is dedicated to showcasing critical writing and research composed by University of Georgia undergraduate students.
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Fellowship to Augment Local History Preservation at UGA Special Collections Libraries

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Upcoming Events

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The Feedback Clinic (for graduate students)

Jennifer L. Palmer (University of Georgia)
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200 Faculty Lounge

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Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the end of Financial Control, with Sean Vanatta

Dr. Sean Vanatta, School of Social & Political Sciences (University of Glasgow)
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148 Zell Miller Learning Center

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Graduate Student Appreciation Week: November 9-15, 2024 check the schedule here for events!


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eHistory

eHistory was founded at the University of Georgia in 2011 by historians Claudio Saunt and Stephen Berry. The first project we launched was IndianNation, a crowdsource/mapping application that geolocates the 237,000 Native Americans captured in the 1900 census (the historic low point of the native population). Since then, eHistory has become a sort of digital collective -- a diverse group of scholars seeking to learn from each other as we experiment and rally on certain forms and formats of digital scholarship.

eHistory is a research cluster of UGA's Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, a core department of the Georgia Informatics Institute, and a founding member of UGA's DigiLab.

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