Dr. Michael Mendle will provide an introduction to Utopia and to the “Year of Utopia” – the activities, conversations, and events we can create in this flash community of the mind celebrating the 500th Anniversary of Thomas Moore’s seminal and enigmatic book. Sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of History. Wednesday, September 16, at 4:30 PM in room 205 Gorgas Library.
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Associate Professor Holly Grout’s book The Force of Beauty: Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic, published by LSU Press in June 2015, examines the effects of the meteoric growth of the cosmetics industry in France’s third republic and its effects on conventional standards of womanhood. Grout moves beyond the narrative of beauty culture as a tool for sociopolitical subjugation to show how it also targeted women as important consumers in major markets and created new avenues by […]
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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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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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 […]
Assistant Professor Bart Elmore’s investigation of the link between the introduction of high-fructose corn syrup and the American obesity epidemic is featured in Salon. Elmore’s article in the Huffington Post explores the impact of increased Coca-Cola sales outside the US.
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Assistant Professor Bart Elmore’s recent book, Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism, was recently reviewed in the Wall Street Journal.
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Dr. Kari Frederickson’s Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South, which examines the impact of the Cold War on the U.S. South, was recently named the recipient of the Southern Historical Association’s Bennett H. Wall Award for the best book in southern economic or business history published in the last two years. …more>>
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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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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Three US Marines at Alcázar de Colon during the first US intervention in the Dominican Republic. Mark Folse, a doctoral student at the University of Alabama, will be the featured presenter at first fall session of the History Department’s Military History Round Table, which will be held at 3:00 pm (CDT) in the Summersell Room. His topic, “Damage Control: The Hispaniola Occupation’s Impact on the Marine Corps Image, 1915-1924,” explores the ways in which the US Marine Corps dealt with […]
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Dr. Lisa Lindquist-Dorr, associate professor in the department of history, has been appointed an associate dean in The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences. Lindquist-Dorr will administer the College’s social sciences division.
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Dr. Steven B. Bunker, associate professor of history at The University of Alabama, has received awards from two distinguished Latin American studies associations for his book, Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Diaz, published by the University of New Mexico Press.
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Andrew Amron’s article, “Reinforcing Manliness: Black State Militias, the Spanish-American War, and the Image of the Black Soldier, 1891-1900,” appeared in the Fall 2012 issue of the Journal of African American History. Amron is a doctoral student working under the direction of Dr. John Giggie.
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Dr. Becky Bruce (PhD, 2012) was hired as Assistant Professor of 20th Century US at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Dr. Jill Cooley (PhD, 2011) was hired as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Food Studies at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This position stems from the Chancellor’s Initiative in the Humanities, “Food Studies at UIC: Local and Global Issues.” Jill is completing a two-year postdoc at the Center for the Study of Southern […]