Over the break we sat down with a few History majors to discuss what they learned last year, what advice they had for prospective majors, and, of course, Alabama football.
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Summersell Center Accepting Deep South Book Prize Nominations
The Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South and the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at The University of Alabama are pleased to announce that they are receiving nominations for the 2024 Summersell Deep South Book Prize for the best book on the history of the American South. The author of the prizewinning book will be awarded a $2500 cash prize and be invited to give an address and meet with faculty and students at […]
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1521-2021: 500th Anniversary of the Fall of the Aztec Empire
Join us on November 17 at 5 PM in the Camellia Room, Gorgas Library as well commemorate the Quincentennial of the fall of the Aztec Empire. Special guests Dr. Bradley Benton, North Dakota State University and Dr. Frances Ramos, University of South Florida, Tampa will join our own Drs. Juan José Ponce Vázquez and Steven Bunker for analysis and discussion of this momentous event. For more information, please contact Dr. Juan José Ponce Vázquez or Dr. Steven Bunker.
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“Dangerous Landscapes” Exhibit, Reception, and Panel Discussion at the UA Gallery
The University of Alabama Gallery and the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative are proud to present the exhibition, Dangerous Landscapes: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Progress in the Age of Climate Change, August 6 through September 24, 2021, the UA Gallery at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts center in downtown Tuscaloosa. A First Friday reception will be held on September 3, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Dangerous Landscapes, organized by Dr. Teresa Cribelli and artist and Assistant Professor Allison Grant, places contemporary photographs of chemical […]
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Dr. Jenny Shaw Wins Cappon Award
Associate Professor Jenny Shaw has been named the winner of the 2020 Lester J. Cappon Award, 1965-2019, which is given annually to the author of the best article published in the William & Mary Quarterly. Shaw’s award was in recognition of her April 2020 WMQ article, “‘In the Name of the Mother’: The Story of Susannah Mingo, A Woman of Color in the Early English Atlantic,” which explores the life and times of Susannah Mingo, an enslaved laborer on the […]
2021 Summersell Deep South Book Prize Nominations
The Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South and the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at The University of Alabama are pleased to announce that they are receiving nominations for the 2021 Summersell Deep South Book Prize for the best book on the history of the American South. The author of the prizewinning book will be awarded a $2500 cash prize and be invited to give an address and meet with faculty and students at […]
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Dr. Lawrence Cappello Wins Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award
Assistant Professor Lawrence Cappello‘s excellence in teaching and learning has been recognized by The University of Alabama Alumni Association’s 2021 Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award. Cappello is an assistant professor of U.S. Legal and Constitutional History and directs our Legal History concentration. The Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award program began approximately forty-five years ago, when The University of Alabama National Alumni Association created an annual program to recognize four UA faculty members who demonstrate an “Outstanding Commitment to Teaching.” The […]
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Summersell Center Director Quoted in Recent Articles
The Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South Director, Dr. John Giggie, was quoted recently by both U.S. News and Realtor.com. Giggie added commentary to a story for U.S. News addressing a move by some leaders to include wayfinding aides to a proposed expansion of US Hwy 43 through Marengo and Greene Counties that would highlight the area’s important Civil Rights history as a way to boost tourism. Realtor.com interviewed Giggie for context on the historical origins of […]
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Public History Roundtable to be Held April 7
Join us on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, at 1:30 CDT, for a roundtable discussion on the field of Public History and jobs and experiences outside traditional academia. The event is free, but registration is required. Julia Brock received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2012. She practices, studies, and teaches public history with special interest in museums, digital history, oral history, and community partnerships. Her research focus is the post-Civil War U.S. South, but her public […]
Undergraduate Jana Venable Wins 2021 Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
Elmore County, Alabama native and senior history major Jana Venable has been awarded the 2021 Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award. Venable received the award for her work, “Recovering Hidden Histories: Memorializing Lynching Victims in Elmore County, Alabama,” which she completed as part of Associate Professor and Director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South John Giggie‘s Alabama Memory project, which seeks to recover the lives of black Alabamians lost in decades of race-driven lynching violence. Venable is […]
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Undergraduate History Major Jackson Foster Wins Ramsey Award
Jackson Foster, a native of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and Junior majoring in History and Religious Studies, has won the 2021 John Fraser Ramsey Award. The Ramsey Award, named after former history professor John Fraser Ramsey, who taught in the Department of History for more than forty years. The award recognizes a “junior with the versatility of gifts and attainments, as well as the breadth of excellence in mind and character, that have traditionally been the goals of a liberal education,” […]
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Montgomery Wins UA’s Outstanding Teaching by a Doctoral Student Award
Last semester, doctoral candidate Margaret Montgomery was awarded the 2020 College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching by a Doctoral Student Award. This spring Montgomery’s name was forwarded to the university-wide competition, where recently she was named The The University of Alabama’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher of the Year. Montgomery is advised by Drs. Andrew Huebner and Holly Grout. Her dissertation, ““Trading Silk for Khaki: The Last Years of the Women’s Army Corps and the Contest Over Soldier Womanhood, 1963-1978,” […]
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From Revolt Against Chivalry to Sisters and Rebels: A Life in Southern and Women’s History
Dr. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and winner of the 2020 Summersell Center for the Study of the South’s Deep South Book Prize, will give her acceptance address on Friday, March 5, at 3 PM CST via Zoom. Her address, entitled “From Revolt Against Chivalry to Sisters and Rebels: A Life in Southern and Women’s History,” will offer perspective and insight into her distinguished career as a student […]
Dr. Helen Delpar’s Generosity Featured in Recent Story
Leaving a Legacy The most recent edition of Collegian featured a story about the generosity and long-term legacy of the late Dr. Helen Delpar, who passed away in 2018. “Those who knew long-time history professor Dr. Helen Delpar describe her as a character. Voted ‘Most Likely to Succeed’ by her high school classmates, she never owned a car and instead walked to work nearly every day until she retired in her late 60s. Though she never married and enjoyed solitude, […]
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History of Us Featured in Recent Edition of Collegian
A History of Us An article about Dr. Giggie’s “History of Us” class, the first Black History class taught in an Alabama public high school, was featured recently in the College of Arts & Sciences magazine, Collegian. “On a January morning, 18 Central High School students sat around a circle of tables in their first period class. It’s silent, but it’s not tense—there’s an air of thoughtfulness, of students searching to find their answer to the question posed moments before. […]
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