History at UGA

 

The University of Georgia Department of History grants the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. The department has a strong tradition of expertise in subjects ranging from early American to modern African American history, the Caribbean to the Middle East, early modern Europe to the modern U.S. South, popular culture to foreign policy, religion to global capitalism. Faculty members have won numerous teaching and scholarly awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Fulbright Awards, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowships, a Pulitzer Prize in History, a Bancroft Prize, a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award, and many others.

 

Latest News

colorized illustration of the Tompkins Square Park riot in New York City in 1874, fromthe article

Scott Nelson: The Awful History of Tariffs and Depressions

Scott Nelson has an essay in the Spring 2025 issue of Foreign Policy. You can read it on the website https://foreignpolicy.com/.
Bill Kelson

Ron and Yvette Walcott Excellence in Fine Arts and Humanities Doctoral Research Award: Bill Kelson History, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to Bill Kelson (PHD '24), recipient of the Ron and Yvette Walcott Excellence in Fine Arts and Humanities Doctoral Research Award.
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Celebrating Our Amazing Alumni – Seven Franklin College of Arts and Sciences 2025 Award Recipients

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Upcoming Events

Home and family of John Owl, Oconaluftee Cherokee, Swain County, c. 1900. N.53.3.44 From the General Negative Collection, State Archives of North Carolina
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eHistory conversation - "Native Ground: Place and Language in the Cherokee Nation"


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250 Miller Learning Center

Photo of UGA Founders garden
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History Graduate Student Annual Awards and Dinner


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UGA Founders Memorial Garden, North Campus

Phi Alpha Theta logo in Greek letters
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Quiplash & Pizza: A Pre-finals Hangout with Phi Alpha Theta/History Club


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101 LeConte Hall

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eHistory

eHistory was founded at the University of Georgia in 2011 by historians Claudio Saunt and Stephen Berry. The first project we launched was IndianNation, a crowdsource/mapping application that geolocates the 237,000 Native Americans captured in the 1900 census (the historic low point of the native population). Since then, eHistory has become a sort of digital collective -- a diverse group of scholars seeking to learn from each other as we experiment and rally on certain forms and formats of digital scholarship.

eHistory is a research cluster of UGA's Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, a core department of the Georgia Informatics Institute, and a founding member of UGA's DigiLab.

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