This past year, staff at the Crimson Historical Review transformed sixty-plus submissions into their most enterprising set of issues to date. In the spring, exceptional authors from across the US […]
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Peer Mentors Continue to Serve their Fellow students
The History Peer Mentoring Program at The University of Alabama was first introduced in 2011. During the past decade the Department has recruited hundreds of peer mentors, who in turn […]
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The Summersell Center for the Study of the South Continues to Explore Hidden histories
The Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South has continued the research of hidden Southern history with its two new classes in the fall semester. “Race and […]
Department Continues Internship Program with White House Historical Association
The department is continuing its partnership with the White House Historical Association (WHHA) on an annual internship for UA history majors. The internship program was started by WHHA president and […]
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Graduate History Association Modifies Power & Struggle Conference
The GHA looks forward to a second paper contest. Last year’s contest, held in lieu of a face-to-face event, received 25 submissions from the US and abroad. Winners were selected […]
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Recent Graduate Job Placements & Matriculations
Stephen Boutwell, MA has continued on to PhD program in History at The University of Alabama Brian Martin, MA has continued on to PhD program in History at The University […]
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Blake Scott Ball (PhD, 2017) Publishes Charlie Brown’s America
Department of History PhD alumnus Blake Scott Ball has crafted an exceptional narrative of Cold War-era America through an unlikely subject: Charlie Brown. In Charlie Brown’s America: The Popular Politics […]
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Faculty Updates
Margaret Abruzzo is writing a book about changing conceptions of sin and wrongdoing—and what it meant to be a “good person”—in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American moral thought. John Beeler spent […]
Dr. Sharony Green Awarded Newberry Fellowship to Study Zora Neale Hurston
Complicated power exchanges have been a focal point of interest to Dr. Sharony Green for quite some time. After researching this topic with antebellum white and African Americans as well […]
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Faculty Publications
Joshua D. Rothman, The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America (Basic Books, 2021) For the past seven years Dr. Joshua D. Rothman, chair of the Department […]
Dr. Jenny Shaw Wins William & Mary Quarterly’s Lester J. Cappon Award
Associate Professor Jenny Shaw has been named the winner of the 2020 Lester J. Cappon Award, which is given annually to the author of the best article published in the […]
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Dr. Julia Brock Awarded NEA Grant
Dr. Julia Brock seeks to tell stories of the past in a new way in order to bring history to a broader audience. Through a grant awarded by the National […]
Dr. Teresa Cribelli Organizes “Dangerous Landscapes” Exhibit
In September 2021, the History Department’s Dr. Teresa Cribelli worked with Allison Grant from the Department of Art and Art History to present a new photographic exhibition, entitled “Dangerous Landscapes.” […]
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Dr. Lawrence Cappello wins awards for teaching and advising
Congratulations to Dr. Lawrence Cappello, who garnered two major awards in 2021. He has won both the 2021 Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award and the 2021 John L. Blackburn Advisor […]
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Supporting the Department
The extent and quality of the activities sponsored by the Department of History depends in large measure on our available funds and the generous support of donors. Endowments or significant […]