The department has joined the rest of The University of Alabama (and most of the nation) in moving all instruction online in response to ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic.
The Frances S. Summersell Center and the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at The University of Alabama are proud to announce the winner of the 2020 Summersell Prize for the best book on the history of the American South: Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America, by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall.
Last week the Department of History published its Spring 2020 edition of Historically Speaking completely electronically.
The Department of History at the University of Alabama endorses the below statement from the American Historical Association on the killing of George Floyd and his death's place in the violent history of the United States.
Glenn David Brasher and G. Ward Hubbs, both noted protégés of Professor George Rable, recently published a piece on the "Rable Method" for the Civil War Monitor.
On Thursday, June 4, 2020 The University of Alabama hosted a virtual vigil to honor and remember black lives lost to racialized violence in the United States.
Louisiana State University Press recently published American Discord: The Republic and Its People during the Civil War Era, an edited volume honoring the career of UA emeritus history professor George C. Rable.
