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Phi Alpha Theta Students Participate in Selma-to-Montgomery March Commemoration

Members from the Beta-Omicron Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta traveled recently to Selma, Alabama, where they participated in ceremonies commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the landmark Selma-to-Montgomery March. The were accompanied by Dr. Sarah Steinbock-Pratt. The trip was organized by the Department of Gender and Race Studies and underwritten by University Programs.

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O Mundo Negro: Posters from the Brazilian Black Movement, 1978 – 1998

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and The University of Alabama present: “O Mundo Negro: Posters from the Brazilian Black Movement, 1978 – 1998.” The exhibit will be held at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and will run from March 17 to May 28. No admission charged. Event organizers will host an opening night reception on March 17, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

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Graduate Student Examines Link Between Charlie Brown and Charlie Hebdo.

Blake Ball, a graduate student in The University of Alabama History Department, wrote a recent editorial for al.com examining the use of Charles Schultz’s “Charlie Brown” character from the Peanuts comic strip during the European response to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. Read the piece on AL.com. Blake Scott Ball is an Alabama native and PhD student in history at The University of Alabama. His dissertation studies the Peanuts comic strip and the rise of conservatism between 1950 and 1980.

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Fashion Statement as Political Statement: The Antislavery Movement and “I Can’t Breathe”

Professor Joshua Rothman’s recent publication at WereHistory.org examines similarities between recent protests against police conduct and the antislavery movement. From Werehistory.org: Amidst the protest movement that has taken shape in the weeks since grand juries in Missouri and New York determined not to indict police officers involved in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, few elements have been more visible than the wearing of black t-shirts emblazoned with the words that have emerged as the movement’s slogan and […]

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“Druid City” Documentary to premiere at Jemison Mansion, December 3

This is the trailer for the world premiere of “Druid City,” a wonderful song performed by Bible Study, a Tuscaloosa band. This trailer and the music video was a class project for students enrolled in the University of Alabama’s Department of History “The Nineteenth Century City” course during the Fall 2014 semester. Special thanks to Ian Crawford, Tim Higgins, Jemison Mansion, members of the group Bible Study as well as everyone who has supported this effort including Kari Frederickson, Chair […]

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Margaret Peacock to discuss her recent book, Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War

Dr. Margaret Peacock will be giving a talk on her recently-published, groundbreaking work, Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood. In this book, Peacock recounts the Soviet and American history of childhood in the Cold War. She shows how propagandists on both sides of the iron curtain mobilized similar images of children in order to manipulate their populations into compliance and consensus. Based on extensive research spanning fourteen archives and three countries, Peacock tells a new story of […]

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The University of Alabama Press Book Sale – September 26 – 28

The University of Alabama Press Annual Book Fall Book Sale – Sept 26 – 28, 2014 The University of Alabama Press will hold its annual fall book sale September 26 – 28 on the second floor of the McMillan Building. UAP will offer hundreds of new and backlist titles from a cornucopia of subjects, including: the history of the university, UA football history, Alabama history, southern history, civil rights history; as well as titles in fiction, literature, archaeology, communications, and […]

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Michael Bibler, Associate Professor of Southern Studies at LSU, to Lecture on Queerness and Antebellum Southern Literature

On Tuesday, September 16, at 5 pm in Morgan Hall 301, Michael Bibler, Associate Professor of Southern Studies at LSU, will be lecturing on queerness and antebellum southern literature. This event is co-sponsored by The Summersell Center for the Study of the South and the Department of English.

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Summersell Center for the Study of the South hosts Wayne Flynt, Sept. 11.

Thursday, September 11, at 5:30 P.M., the Summersell Center for the Study of the South will host Wayne Flynt, Professor Emeritus at Auburn University. Dr. Flynt will present a lecture on Greek life, diversity, and structural inequalities here and elsewhere in The University of Alabama. The lecture will be presented in room 30 of ten Hoor Hall.

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Dr. George Rable Wins 2014 SEC Faculty Achievement Award

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The Southeastern Conference announced Wednesday that The University of Alabama’s Dr. George C. Rable won the 2014 Faculty Achievement Award. Rable, a UA history professor and the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History, said he was happy to be one of only fourteen professors across the SEC to be chosen for the award. “I am deeply honored to have been chosen for this SEC Faculty Achievement Award,” Rable said. “I am also humbled to realize how […]

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Scottsboro Boys Remembered

From UA News: “TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama’s Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art in downtown Tuscaloosa opens today its first exhibit of the year, ‘Scottsboro Boys: The Fred Hiroshige Photographs’ from the Morgan County Archives. It showcases historic photographs on loan from Morgan County that document the 1933 retrial of one of Alabama’s ‘Scottsboro Boys.’ The exhibit will be on display until Feb. 21. Last year, faculty and students in UA’s College of Arts and Sciences worked […]

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Associate Professor Margaret Abruzzo Awarded NEH Fellowship.

Associate Professor Margaret Abruzzo received a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project entitled Good People and Bad Behavior: Changing Views of Sin, Evil, and Moral Responsibility in the 18th and 19th Centuries. This fellowship will support twelve months of full-time writing on a book that will trace changes in how both Catholic and Protestant Americans thought about sin and sinners. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many traditional frameworks for explaining sin — such […]

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