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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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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Fall Edition of Historically Speaking Available Now
The Fall 2020 edition of Historically Speaking, the Department of History’s biannual newsletter, is hot off the presses! In this semester’s issue, readers will find stories on: New Degree Concentrations […]
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Spring 2020 Edition of Historically Speaking Published Electronically
Last week the Department of History published its Spring 2020 edition of Historically Speaking completely electronically. Though we’ve always made an electronic edition available online, we’ve focused our spring efforts […]
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Spring 2019 Edition of Historically Speaking Now Available.
The Department of History at The University of Alabama is pleased present the Spring 2019 edition of our newsletter, Historically Speaking. […]
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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 […]
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Our New Department Newsletter, Historically Speaking, Now Available!
We are pleased to announce that issue number one of Historically Speaking is now in print and on its way to faculty, students, alumni, and friends of the Department of […]
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