Tag: digital humanities

Alumna Returns to Discuss Book That Began as Undergraduate Research Seminar Project

December 9, 2022

Dr. Isabela Morales (UA Class of 2012) returned to campus September 29-30 to talk about her first book, Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom (OUP, 2022). Speaking to a group of fifty undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty, Dr. Morales explained how her research began in Dr. Jenny Shaw’s American Slavery Research Seminar (now HY497) during the Fall 2011 semester. The subject of that seminar was “Slavery in the Americas” and following a visit to the W.S. […]

Alumna Returns to Discuss Book That Began as Undergraduate Research Seminar Project

October 10, 2022

Dr. Isabela Morales (UA Class of 2012) returned to campus on September 29th and 30th to talk about her first book, Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom (New York: OUP, 2022). Speaking to a group of fifty undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty, Dr. Morales explained how her research began in Dr. Jenny Shaw’s American Slavery Research Seminar (now HY497) during the Fall 2011 semester. The subject of that seminar was “Slavery in the Americas” and […]

Jeffrey McClurken: Digital Humanities & Southern History

February 12, 2019

Please join us for an evening with Dr. Jeffrey McClurken on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, at 5:00 PM in ten Hoor 251. Dr. McClurken is Professor of History and American Studies and Chief of Staff to the President at the University of Mary Washington, and he will be speaking about the impact of Digital Humanities on Southern History over the past two decades. As a long-time practitioner and teacher in both, McClurken’s talk will explore where the fields intersect, how they have affected each […]

Department Hosts Panel on the American Civil War Online and in the Public Sphere

September 15, 2017

On September 14, 2017, the Department of History was proud to host “The American Civil War Online and in the Public Sphere,” a panel with Susannah J. Ural of the University of Southern Mississippi, Judith Giesberg of Villanova University, and Anne Rubin of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Each presenter spoke about their respective backgrounds in Civil War digital humanities projects. Dr. Ural documented her work with the Beauvoir Soldiers’ Home, a former Confederate veterans’ home in Biloxi, MS, on […]