News – Page 18 – Department of History

George C. Rable Symposium to be Held October 7, 2016

October 4, 2016

Join the Department of History as we honor Dr. George C. Rable, Professor Emeritus and former Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History, on Friday, October 7, 2016, from 2-4 PM at the Bryant Conference Center. Guests will include: Dr. A. Wilson Greene, Executive Director of Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier and former president and CEO of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites, a predecessor of the Civil War Trust. […]

Loud Speaker Session: Latino & Hispanic Heritage Discussion With Dr. Juan Ponce-Vazquez, Assistant Professor, History Department

October 3, 2016

Dr. Juan Ponce-Vazquez, Assistant Professor, History Department, will be the speaker at the next Loud Speaker Session, which will focus on Latino & Hispanic Heritage. The Loud Speaker Sessions discuss the statement: “I am _______, therefore they think ________.” Loud Speaker participants explore the identities of the faculty, staff and students at UA. Where: Intercultural Diversity Center When: October 5, 2016 @ 6:30pm Sponsored by Intercultural Diversity Center & the Hispanic-Latino Association

Scenes from the Department’s Homecoming Tailgate

October 2, 2016

Dr. David LaFevor – Digital Preservation in the Siete Villas of Cuba: Goals and Challenges of Digital Humanities

September 28, 2016

Dr. David LaFevor, Assistant Professor of Latin American History and Digital Humanities at the University of Texas Arlington, will deliver a talk titled, “Digital Preservation in the Siete Villas of Cuba: Goals and Challenges of Digital Humanities,” on Wednesday, October 5, from 12-1 pm, in 251 ten Hoor. All UA faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend. Lunch will be provided via signup. This event is sponsored by The Department of History; The Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies […]

Department Celebrates Dr. Teresa Cribelli’s New Book

September 23, 2016

The History Department came together on Thursday, September 22, to celebrate the publication of Dr. Teresa Cribelli’s new book, Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in the Nineteenth Century, published this year by Cambridge University Press. The book presents an account of modernization and innovation in nineteenth-century Brazil. Unlike previous scholarship, which described these transformations as a North American or European import, Cribelli’s work places Brazilian actors at the center of her narrative, illuminating a distinctly Brazilian view of modernization. […]

Dr. Joshua Rothman Embraces New Role as Department Chair

September 21, 2016

The History Department is pleased to announce our new Department Chair, Dr. Joshua Rothman. As Chair, he serves as the official liaison between the department and the university administration, assisting with schedule creation, budgeting, and communication between students, faculty, and the dean’s office. Dr. Rothman hopes to see the the undergraduate program expand during his time as chair and is dedicated to encouraging students to pursue a major or minor in history. “The study of history creates well rounded humans, […]

UA Graduate Uses Alabama Education to Research in Paris

September 8, 2016

Edward J. Gray, a 2013 Alabama graduate in history, and current Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University, is now in Paris, researching a powerful French political family. Gray is passionate about his subject, the Marillac family, and their rise and fall from power during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a period which also saw the centralization of the French state. The Marillacs were involved in the highest levels of politics and diplomacy. Their devotion to the Catholic Reformation, among other political […]

Faculty Spotlight: Sharony Green

September 1, 2016

Assistant Professor Sharony Green continues to bring innovative research and courses to our department. Recently, the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center showcased Dr. Green’s ongoing research project, where she examines postwar black migration to Miami, Florida, featuring video clips of oral history interviews she conducted and a soundtrack curated by her HY 300 class, which was meant to provide an aural backdrop to her research. The students were instructed to pick songs that they would play “on heavy rotation” if […]

The Department of History is Pleased to Welcome Dr. Lesley J. Gordon, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, to the department.

September 1, 2016

Dr. Lesley J. Gordon is the new Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at The University of Alabama, filling the position once held by Dr. George C. Rable, who retired at the end of the 2015-16 school year. Dr. Gordon is from Connecticut, originally, but has spent thirteen years in the South; she attended the College of William and Mary for her undergraduate degree and the University of Georgia for her Ph.D.; her first teaching position was at Murray […]

Fall 2016 Undergraduate Peer Mentoring Program Dates Announced

August 31, 2016

The Department of History’s Undergraduate Peer Mentoring Program is comprised of undergraduate students who excelled in their history survey courses and wish to help share what they learned in order to help their fellow students be successful in their history courses, too. The program’s services are offered at no cost to students. What the Peer Mentoring Program Does: The Peer Mentoring Program is a how-to group that focuses on the process of taking a history survey course (100 level courses). […]

Assistant Professor Sharony Green’s Feature-Length Documentary, The Grant Green Story Accepted for Inclusion in Harlem International Film Festival

August 21, 2016

Assistant Professor Sharony Green’s first feature length documentary, The Grant Green Story, will premiere at the 11th Annual Harlem International Film Festival in New York City, September 14-18, 2016. The film unveils the life of the late jazz guitarist Grant Green, her former father-in-law. Green is best known for his work with Blue Note Records, America’s first independent jazz label, during the company’s heyday, the early-to-mid 1960s. He died at the age of forty-three in 1979. Among the individuals interviewed […]

History Professor and her Students Capture Black Migration Through Sound and Images

August 18, 2016

Far too often, when folks think of black migration from the South before and after the Second World War, they think of people moving north or west. Sharony Green, Assistant Professor of History, is conducting research that captures the movement of African American farther South to Florida, specifically to Miami. Her work is being made accessible to a broad audience via a digital art installation 6-7:30 pm, Monday, August, 29, 2016 at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro […]

Library Exhibit Celebrating NPS Centennial Includes Items from the Harold Selesky Travel and Tourism Collection

August 3, 2016

“100 Years of the National Park Service” exhibit Date: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 Time: All Day Location: Pearce Foyer, 2nd floor Gorgas Library The beginning of the National Park Service as we know it today didn’t spring into being with the establishment of the first national park by the U. S. Congress on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone National Park, the first park in the United States and widely held to be the first national park in the world, was established […]

Dr. Josh Rothman Appeared on NY Public Radio to Discuss New Insights in the History of American Slavery

July 28, 2016

Professor Josh Rothman, director of the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, appeared recently on Albany, NY’s WAMC-FM to discuss how ads placed for the return of runaway slaves gives us a more complete picture of our history. Text of the entire interview is available here.

Alabama Department of Archives and History Accepting Fall Discovery Internship Applications

July 14, 2016

The Alabama Department of Archives and History is offering an internship opportunity for an undergraduate or graduate student for the Fall of 2016. Applications are currently being accepted from interested candidates. The ADAH is offering one Discovery Internship for a student interested in gaining a broad overview of the public history field. Click here for further information. Click here for an application. The deadline for applications for the Discovery internship is August 5, 2016. Should you have any additional questions […]

Department of History

College of Arts & Sciences

Category: News