Mark your calendars for a one-day symposium hosted by Dr. Andrew Huebner, Dr. Lesley J. Gordon, and Dr. Holly Pinhiero on Friday, March 22, 2019. The symposium is entitled “Race and Gender Explorations: A Symposium on War and Military Service in 19th & 20th Century America,” and will explore the overlapping history of American military service, race, and gender. Fighting wars and fielding a military have long implicated the broader social contours of the United States. Our participants include Chad […]
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Jeffrey McClurken: Digital Humanities & Southern History
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 […]
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Summersell Center Offers Short-Term Research Fellowships
The Summersell Center offers short-term research fellowships intended to assist scholars from outside the Tuscaloosa area with their use of the archival collections and resources held on The University of Alabama campus. Endowment of these fellowships allows us to continue them indefinitely and possibly to expand the number of them we can offer, while freeing up resources for other projects. To support the study of southern history and promote the use of the collections housed at The University of Alabama, […]
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UA Historian Reports on Federal Shutdown’s Impact for NPS Historians
Government Shutdown Means History Is on Hold at National Parks Explaining the historical import of National Park Service sites is more calling than career for most of the people who do it, but the shutdown has played hell with that dream. Glenn David Brasher (via the Daily Beast) Much media coverage has focused on the negative impacts of the longest government shutdown in history, from airport security, to the GDP, to FDA food inspections. We have also seen damage to our National […]
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Department Alumna Rachel K. Deale Shines at Barton College
Alumna of the History Department Rachel “Katie” Deale has left the familiar halls of ten Hoor for bigger and better things — namely, an Assistant Professorship in American History at Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina. At Barton, Dr. Deale teaches four courses per semester, advises undergraduates, supervises internships, serves on committees, and runs a yearly lecture series. It’s certainly a big shift from The University of Alabama, says Deale, who completed her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees here. But […]
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Careers in History: Education Administration and Political Office
Hear Richard Dennis speak on how to turn your History and Education degree into a career in Administration and Politics. Mr. Richard Dennis is the Superintendent of Education for Elmore County and was Principal for five years at Prattville High School and before that Principal for seven years at Wetumpka High School. He was a History and Secondary Education Major at The University of Alabama and is excited to return and speak to aspiring students wanting to work in the […]
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Mercer Professor Sarah Gardner to Speak on Southern Literary Reviewers, January 28
Please join us for an evening with Dr. Sarah Gardner, Professor of History at Mercer University, on Monday, January 28, 2019, from 5:00-6:30 PM in Gorgas 205. In her talk, entitled “The World the Reviewers Made,” Dr. Gardner will be speaking about her most recent book, Reviewing the South: The Literary Marketplace and the Southern Renaissance, 1920–1941 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), which examines the modern commercial book industry and its role in shaping the Southern Renaissance during the Great Depression. […]
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Summersell Center to Host Tera Hunter on January 25
Dr. Tera Hunter, Edwards Professor of American History and Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, will deliver a public lecture on African America marriage in slavery and freedom on January 25, at 4:30 PM, in 30 ten Hoor Hall. Hunter’s Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017) won the Fourth Biennial Deep South Book Prize from the Summersell Center for the Study of the South. According to the […]
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Lesley Gordon Appears on C-SPAN to Discuss George Pickett
Professor Lesley Gordon, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, spoke at Pamplin Historical Park, in Petersburg, Virginia, several months ago. She discussed Confederate General George Pickett and his third wife, LaSalle Corbell Pickett, whose extensive writing about her late husband shaped his historical legacy in significant ways. Gordon is the author of George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (The University of North Carolina Press, 1998).
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Medieval Conference a Success
October 2018, the Department of History at The University of Alabama partnered with the University of Dresden to present the conference “Religious Life, Elites, and Medieval Culture.” The conference ran from 17-20 October and included speakers from across the U.S. and Europe discussing the identity and significance of elites in the Medieval context. The conference was organized by our own Dr. James Mixson and Dresden’s Prof. Gert Melville, who led the opening talk and closing roundtable. Dr. John Van Engen […]
Department Hosts Friends & Alumni at SHA-Birmingham
The Department of History was happy to host a Department Friends & Alumni Meet-Up for all attendees at the 2019 Southern Historical Association Conference in Birmingham this November. Current professors and graduate students were able to mingle with alumni, former and emeritus faculty, and other friends of the department. The event was sponsored by the the Summersell Chair of Southern History Endowment Fund. The Summersell Center for the Study of the South also sponsored membership and housing for four undergraduate students – Margaret […]
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Amy Murrell Taylor Visits Campus
The History Department was pleased to host Amy Murrell Taylor in November to give a talk on her new book, Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps. In her book, Taylor discusses the meaning wrapped up in the physical design and structure of the camps where former enslaved persons fleeing the Confederacy were housed. When these spaces disappeared when the war ended, it left a major mark on the African-American community as they sought equality and agency. […]
Dr. Julia Brock to Host “Careers in History: Public History” on November 30
Dr. Julia Brock will host the department’s “Careers in History” session at 3 PM, on November 30, in 251 ten Hoor. Brock’s focus will be on the field of public history, including careers in historic preservation, archives, museums, public outreach, and government work.
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Mapping Antebellum America Exhibit Open December 5
Students enrolled in Dr. Sharony Green‘s Antebellum America course worked with UA’s Cartographic Research Lab and visited several historical sites this fall, using the antebellum period as a starting point for “mapping” historical events and issues in Tuscaloosa and throughout Alabama in honor of Alabama’s 2019 bicentennial celebration. The results of their work will be on display from 3-5:30 PM, December 5, in 113 ten Hoor. Students will give 5-10 presentations during their regular 2.5 hour class time as a […]
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Fall Edition of Historically Speaking Now Available
We are please to announce that the Fall 2018 edition of Historically Speaking is now in print and on its way to faculty, students, alumni, and friends of the Department of History at The University of Alabama. An electronic version of the current issue is available at this link for those who can’t wait for the postman to deliver the hard copy version! Thank you to everyone who contributed to this publication, especially the members of the department’s Communications Committee: Drs. Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, Juan Ponce-Vazquez, Holly […]
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