Image: In celebration of Black History Month, the Department of History is presenting a number of noted speakers and activities for our students, faculty, and the local community during the month of February. While our programming typically includes a lot of African American history on a regular basis, we have added additional events in a celebration of culture and history. Students especially may be interested in our book clubs, when they will get the opportunity to actually meet the noted historians and authors of new and upcoming books. We are pleased to announce visits by Thavolia Glymph, Professor of History and Law at Duke University, whose book The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation was just published February 2020; and also by Louis Nelson (University of Virginia) who will meet with students to discuss Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s University (UVA Press, 2019), the volume he co-edited with Maurie McInnis (University of Texas). Email history@uga.edu to RSVP and obtain a free copy of the book and reserve your place in either book club. Only those who RSVP to attend book club may receive a free copy of the book. From film screenings of the local documentary Below Baldwin to the nationally released film Glory, we have a little something for everyone in February. Our own faculty new-book series and popular LunchTime Time Machine events will also feature topical themes, as Cassia Roth talks about her new book A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (January, 2020) February 14, and Diane Batts Morrow brings time back to 1830s Baltimore and Black nuns and education, on February 18. Once again this year we also have a walking tour of local history, this year led by local artist and historian Broderick Flanigan. The tour will end with a lunch downtown at a local barbeque restaurant, sure to please attendees. Town or Gown--student, parent, faculty or community member--you are invited to attend any of our Black History Month events. The events listed above and others may be found on our events listing https://history.uga.edu/events/all. Please join us! Be sure to check the event listing for details, some require RSVP'S.
