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Department Celebrates Professor George McClure’s Career

April 24, 2018

Dr. George McClure has taught at The University of Alabama for more than thirty years, where he has taught innumerable students in our own department, as well as in the Honors College and Blount programs. Dr. McClure is a scholar of the Renaissance, and has also taught courses on the Reformation and environmental history. Beloved by students and colleagues alike, Dr. McClure is both an accomplished scholar and a gifted teacher. His retirement party at ten Hoor was bittersweet and […]

Department Celebrates Recent Publications by Faculty

April 24, 2018

The History Department celebrated three faculty members publishing books earlier this semester. Professor Emeritus Howard Jones published My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness. In it, Jones gives an exhaustively researched and compelling look at the events of March 16, 1968, when U.S. troops entered a group of hamlets on a “search and destroy” mission. Three hours later, more than 500 civilians were dead, killed by U.S. soldiers in the My Lai Massacre, named after one of the […]

2018 Honors Day Awards Review

April 13, 2018

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 […]

US Army Chief of Military History & Chair of War Studies Department at USMC Command Staff College Visit Department

April 2, 2018

On March 29, The University of Alabama Department of History hosted a pair of events lead by two military historians. Executive Director of the US Army Center of Military History and Chief of History, Charles R. Bowery, Jr., and Professor of Military History and Department Head of the War Studies Department at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Dr. Christopher Stowe. Bowery and Stowe gave joint presentations to faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students, discussing the Civil War and its […]

Five Undergraduates Present at UA’s Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity Conference

April 2, 2018

Emma Pepperman, “Where Legends Were Forgotten: Enslaved Workers at the University of Alabama, 1831- 1865.” Abstract: On The University of Alabama’s web page is a link explaining the Capstone’s slogan: “WHERE LEGENDS ARE MADE is about the past, present and future of The University of Alabama. It speaks to the aspirations of our students and their parents, to the pride of our alumni and donors, and to the devotion of our legions of fans in our state, across the nation […]

Dr Green’s Students Open Art Exhibit: “Mecca”

March 22, 2018

On March 2nd, our own Dr. Sharony Green opened an art exhibit curated by students in her “Gender, Race, and Urban Space” graduate course. The exhibit, entitled “Mecca: Atlanta, Harlem, Miami, and Beyond” reflect the students’ interrogation of these cities as cultural “Meccas” for certain groups, in particular people of African descent. The exhibit is currently on display at the Paul R. Jones Gallery in downtown Tuscaloosa, and will be on display there until April 27th. Congratulations to Dr. Green […]

Dr. Victoria Bynum Visits UA

March 22, 2018

The History Department was honored to host noted Civil War historian, Dr. Victoria Bynum, for a pair of departmental events this March. The Department hosted a screening of the 2016 film The Free State of Jones, based on her 2001 work The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War. Following the screening was a Q&A discussion with Dr. Bynum, as she examined the film’s strengths and weaknesses as an adaptation of her research, as well as provided more information […]

Dr. Sarah Pearsall – Violence and Polygamy in Early America

March 8, 2018

The Department of History is hosting a talk by Dr. Sarah Pearsall, University Senior Lecturer in the History of Early America and the Atlantic World at Cambridge University, on “Violence and Polygamy in Early America.” The lecture will take place on Monday, March 26, from 4:30-6 PM in 30 ten Hoor Hall. This event is sponsored by the Department of History, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, the Diversity Committee of the College of Arts & Sciences, and […]

Department Hosts US Army Chief of Military History & Chair of War Studies Department at USMC Command Staff College

March 8, 2018

The Department of History is pleased to welcome Charles R. Bowery, Jr. and Christopher Stowe to discuss connections between the Civil War and today’s military. The will speak in room 30, ten Hoor Hall on Thursday, March 29, at 3:30 PM. Mr. Bowery is Executive Director U.S. Army Center of Military History and Chief of Military History. He is responsible for the overall supervision and direction of historical matters throughout the Department of the Army, which includes management of fifty-seven […]

Department Welcomes Prospective Graduate Students

March 1, 2018

The History Department hosted a group of prospective graduate students on February 23, 2018. The prospective students were first welcomed by Dr. Daniel Riches, Director of Graduate Studies. “We were delighted to welcome seventeen accepted students who traveled from across the country to visit our department,” says Dr. Riches. “The central theme of the event was to provide our guests with as much information about us as we could so that they could make maximally informed choices about whether or […]

Undergraduate Researches Lutheran Liturgies

March 1, 2018

Molly Buffington, a History major in her junior year at UA, is writing an honor’s thesis on Lutheran liturgies, and the ways that theology about the sacrament was communicated to the congregation through these songs. German liturgical texts in the 16th and 17th centuries, though often overlooked in historical scholarship on the Protestant Reformation, reflected ongoing debates about developing Lutheran theology, specifically understandings of the Eucharist. These songs were a vital way to impart information about Lutheran belief and practice […]

History Department Alumna Briana Royster Pursues PhD at New York University

February 22, 2018

Briana Royster is a Tuscaloosa native who earned her BA in History in 2012, as well as MA’s in History (2014) and Women’s Studies (2015). Though she entered undergrad as an engineering student, after returning to school following a break in her studies, she decided to switch to History. Royster wasn’t entirely sure what she wanted to do upon graduation, but Drs. Lisa Lindquist-Dorr, Steven Bunker, and Jenny Shaw encouraged her to consider graduate studies. The professors she had formed […]

Chief of Exhibits for the National Museum of the United States Army Visits UA

February 19, 2018

The Museum Studies program recently hosted a talk with Paul Morando, Chief of Exhibits at the National Museum of the United States Army. The museum, which is currently under construction in Fort Belvoir, VA, will be the first national museum for the U.S. Army as a whole. Mr. Morando discussed the funding, design, construction, and artifact acquisition process for the museum, which is expected to open to the public in 2020. The museum presents a narrative of the U.S. Army from […]

Adams and Martinson Receive the College of Arts & Science’s Outstanding Sophomore Award

February 15, 2018

Please join the Department of History in congratulating History Majors Emily Adams and Clay Martinson, both 2018 recipients of the College of Arts & Science’s Outstanding Sophomore Award! Clay is an “Alabama boy” from Huntsville. He is majoring in History with a Civic Engagement and Leadership minor through New College. He is Associate Vice President of Student Affairs in SGA, a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, co-chair of Lambda Sigma Honors Society, and has recently finished his term as […]

Noted Civil War Historian Dr. Victoria Bynum to Host Screening of The Free State of Jones

February 1, 2018

Noted Civil War historian Dr. Victoria Bynum will host a screening of the 2016 film, The Free State of Jones, staring Matthew McConaughey, which was based upon her 2001 work, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War, with a discussion of the film and the real-life events to follow. The screening will take place in 205 Gorgas Library on March 1, 2018, at 3:30 PM. Sponsored by the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History and the College of […]