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2016 Honors Day Awards Review – Text Only

Each April, the Department of History salutes the achievements of its students, recognizing their commitment to excellence and high academic and personal standards.  The faculty of the Department of History extends our heartfelt congratulations to the families and friends of the students honored today.  On this Honors Day, please know that we share your pride in the hard work demonstrated by your honoree and look forward to the many further contributions he or she will certainly make, both to our […]

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Undergraduates Win Awards at Research and Creative Activity Conference

Four students mentored by History faculty won awards recently at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference. Jessica Hauger, mentored by Drs. Erik Peterson and Lisa Lindquist-Dorr, won second place in the Oral Presentations for Fine Arts and Humanities. Hauger’s talk was titled “‘The Common Lot’: The Philosophical Problem of Labor Pain in the Late Nineteenth Century,” and explored conceptions of childbirth pain in the period following the invention of anesthesia. Hauger examined the gulf between physicians’ and women’s perceptions, […]

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Assistant Professor Bart Elmore Has Article Featured in HuffPost Business

  Coke’s Recent Divestment Can Tell Us A Lot About American Capitalism Bartow J. Elmore Author, Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism Last week, the Coca-Cola Company announced that it was slimming down. Reeling from a dramatic 25-percent decline in US consumption of sugary soft drinks over the past two decades, a trend in part stimulated by consumer concerns about the link between soft drinks and obesity, Coke decided it was time to trim the fat. No, Coke was […]

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Dr. Gordon Black, founder & former CEO of the Harris Interactive Poll, Discusses Careers for A&S Majors

Dr. Gordon Black, founder and former CEO of the Harris Interactive Poll, will hold an informal conversation with students about the many challenging and successful career options for Arts & Sciences majors. All are invited. Contact Dr. Stephen Schwab for further details.

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Slavic Studies Conference a Success

On March 17-19, the History Department at the University of Alabama sponsored the Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. As the oldest and largest of all the regional Slavic conferences, the meeting drew more than two hundred scholars of Slavic and Eastern European history, literature, and language to Tuscaloosa. Over the course of three days, scholars met to discuss topics ranging from the war in Ukraine to the legacy of Stalin in Russia to the relationship between […]

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List of Top 200 Civil War Books & Articles Includes Three Authors and Five Titles from Department

The Civil War Era Studies Program at Gettysburg College has updated their list of the Top Two Hundred Civil War Books and Articles in nine categories.  Five works from our department made the list. 70. George C. Rable, The Confederate Republic: A Revolt Against Politics (1994). 71. George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989). 165. Glenn Brasher, The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom (2012). 179. […]

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Professor Gert Melville Visits Department

Professor Gert Melville, Senior Professor of History at the Dresden University of Technology, delivered a lecture entitled “The Pursuit of Salvation: A Fundamental Challenge in the Middle Ages” on Thursday, March 3, 2015, in the Summersell Room. Melville has taught at the Dresden University of Technology since 1994, and is the author of four decades’ worth of scholarship on religious life, religious orders, and the broader religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages. He is founder and director of […]

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“Interracial Intimacy in Antebellum America” Panel Discussion Podcast Now Available

A printed transcript of the audio for this event is available here. “Interracial Intimacy in Antebellum America” | Panel Discussion from UA College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo. Approximately 100 people gathered at Tuscaloosa’s Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center on Tuesday, January 26 to hear a panel presentation on the topic of Interracial Intimacy in Antebellum America from Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of the New York Times bestseller Wench; Trudier Harris, Professor of English, The University of Alabama; Sharony Green, […]

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Doctoral Student Blake Scott Ball Publishes Piece with al.com’s Opinion Section.

Doctoral student Blake Scott Ball’s “A brief history of Mountain Brook picking on Birmingham” appears in today’s edition of al.com‘s Opinion section. “Making a decent wage in Alabama in 2016 is hard enough. With an unemployment rate higher than the national average to start the new year, many working class Alabamians are anxious about whether their hard work will pay enough to bring a brighter future. But that battle looks bleak when establishing a competitive wage means facing down 75 […]

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Noted Historians Address Department

Dr. Carrie Gibson, an historian and author of Empires Crossroads, a History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day, came to the History Department on Friday, February 12, to deliver a talk titled “The Deep South and its ‘Forgotten’ Hispanic Heritage.” The talk was drawn from her upcoming book, a history of the Hispanic past in the US and the historical memory of this legacy. Using the Deep South as an example, Dr. Gibson highlighted some important examples […]

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Professor Gert Melville to Present “The Pursuit of Salvation: A Fundamental Challenge in the Middle Ages.”

Professor Gert Melville, Senior Professor of History at the Dresden University of Technology, will speak on “The Pursuit of Salvation: A Fundamental Challenge in the Middle Ages” on Thursday, March 3, 2015, at 5:00 p.m. in the Summersell Room (251 ten Hoor). Melville has taught at the Dresden University of Technology since 1994, and is the author of four decades’ worth of scholarship on religious life, religious orders, and the broader religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages. He […]

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Department of History Faculty Appear on NPR Affiliates

Assistant Professors Bart Elmore and Sharony Green have each appeared on Wisconsin and Ohio NPR affiliate stations recently. On January 27, 2016, Dr. Green appeared on WVXU-FM, Cincinnati, OH to discuss the role that geography played in building antebellum Cincinnati’s population of mixed race peoples, which was the largest population of its kind outside the South during the period. On February 7, 2016, Dr. Elmore appeared on To The Best of Our Knowledge, a production of Wisconsin Public Radio that […]

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Dr. George Rable Honored for Damn Yankees

The History Department came together yesterday to celebrate the publication of Dr. George Rable’s sixth and latest book, Damn Yankees: Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South (Louisiana State University Press, 2015). Dr. Kari Frederickson began the event by noting that the book is drawn from talks delivered for the Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History, a prestigious series that has featured some of the most notable southern historians in the country. Dr. Lawrence Kohl spoke about the contribution […]

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Dr. Carrie Gibson to Speak on the Deep South’s ‘Forgotten’ Hispanic Heritage.

The Department of History, LACLS, The Summersell Center for the Study of the South, and The Department of American Studies present Dr. Carrie Gibson, author of Empire’s Crossroads. Dr. Gibson will speak on the South’s Forgotten Hispanic Heritage on Friday, February 12, 2016, at 3 p.m. in room 251, ten Hoor Hall. The title of her presentation is, “The Deep South and its ‘Forgotten’ Hispanic Heritage: From Ponce de Leon to thet Present Day.” All are welcome to attend this […]

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