Upon release, incarcerated people are greeted by more than 48,000 laws, policies and administrative sanctions that limit their participation in the labor and housing markets, in the culture and civic life of the city, and even within their families. They are subject to rules other people are not subject to and shoulder responsibilities other people […]
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Whether you arrive in Gainesville by plane, automobile, or a good old-fashioned donkey, the History Department welcomes you back for the 2018-19 academic year. Be sure to check out our many courses listed in the slideshow below–including brand new classes on China–and please have safe travels. Check in to this site from time to time […]
Dr. Lily Guerra provides a compelling answer to this question in the most recent edition of the American Historical Association’s Perspectives. Dr. Guerra responds to an earlier article by AHA President Mary Beth Norton entitled “Why Are You a Historian?” After a meeting with UF’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society, Dr. Guerra was […]
We are thrilled to share the news that UF History’s Jack Davis has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Gulf: The History of an American Sea. In announcing the award, the Pulitzer called this book: “An important environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that brings crucial attention to Earth’s […]
The History Department wishes all its undergraduate and graduate students good luck as they embark on these final days of the 2017-18 academic year. If you are graduating, congratulations and we wish you success. If not, then we look forward to seeing you next year. No matter where you are headed, please stay in touch […]
Please join us for a public lecture on Thursday, 15 March, 2018 4:00 pm at the History Department conference room in 5 Keene-Flint Hall, as Professor Azzan Yadin-Israel of Rutgers University will present: “The Birth of an Icon: How the Forbidden Fruit became an Apple.” Though we often assume Adam and Eve sinned by eating an […]
For UF undergrads interested in doing a Senior Thesis on a historical subject, consider the History Honors Program. It might not be the School of Athens, but it’s pretty close. And you don’t even have to be a history major to apply! For more details, you can either visit our webpage link. If you have any […]
The History Department is proud to announce that this year’s Gary and Eleanor Simons Lecture will be on Thursday, 22 March 2018 at 5:30 in Smathers 100. Dr. Joseph Crespino of the Emory University History Department will give a talk entitled, “Searching for Atticus Finch: Harper Lee & American History.” Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is […]
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Professor Pippa Holloway from Middle Tennessee State University will give a talk in this year’s Milbauer Lecture series on the history of felon disenfranchisement in Florida on Thursday, 22 February 2018 at 6 pm in the Bob Graham Center, on UF campus. Professor Holloway is the author of Felon Disfranchisement and the History of American Citizenship (Oxford […]
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UF’s Center for African Studies is devoting its 17th Carter Conference to creating a critical public forum about new methods and politics in curation and text-image studies. Emphasizing juxtapositions, sequences, montage, friction, and postcolonial politics, it will problematize archival, field, and curatorial techniques in the global humanities. We aim to interrogate art, fables, lexicons, dreams, and […]
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We can’t advise you on your taxes, but if you’re planning on applying for the University Scholars Program, the History Honors Program, or any of the other awards and fellowships through the History Department, here are your 2018 deadlines. FEB 1 University Scholars applications due to the Department of History (submit […]
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The History Department is pleased to announce a public talk by Dr. Jonathan Ray entitled “Merchants, Mystics, and Secret Jews: Sephardic Identities in the Age of Discovery,” in the lecture series sponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies. Dr. Ray will speak on Monday, 5 February 2018 at 5 pm in the Judaica […]
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Dr. Heather Vrana, a recent addition to UF’s History Department, has published her first book with the University of California Press entitled, This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996. This book analyzes the role of students from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala’s turbulent history in the half-century following World […]
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The History Department is proud to announce the Richmond F. Brown Graduate Fund. Dr. Brown, the Center for Latin American Studies’ former Associate Director for Academic Programs and an affiliate faculty of the History Department, died peacefully on September 20, 2016. As a way of honoring his memory, the UF Center for Latin American Studies […]
The History Department is proud to recognize that Dr. Jack Davis has won the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction for his book, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. Here is their original review in its entirety: A sweeping environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that duly considers the ravages of nature and man. […]
The History Department is pleased to announce it’s first Pozzetta Lecture of the 2017-18 academic year. On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 3 p.m., Dr. Todd Leedy of UF’s Center for African Studies will present, “But Did They Really Race? The Early History of Black Competitive Cycling in Johannesburg.” This talk will occur in the […]
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The Southern Labor Studies Association is currently accepting submissions for the Robert H. Zieger Prize for Southern Labor Studies. SLSA awards the Zieger Prize at the biennial Southern Labor Studies Conference for the best unpublished essay in southern labor studies written by a graduate student or early career scholar, journalist, or activist. The Zieger Prize […]
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This April, the History Department was sad to learn of the passing of our former colleague, Dr. Michael Gannon. In recognition of his long career and his many contributions to the field of Florida history and to the University of Florida, the Department will hold a memorial service at the Baughman Center on the campus of the University […]
The History Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Heather Vrana, formerly of Southern Connecticut State University, as an assistant professor beginning in Fall 2017. Dr. Vrana received her Ph.D from Indiana University in 2013 and is the author of This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996 (University of California Press, 2017), Anti-Colonial […]
Interested in writing a senior thesis? Applying for money to do research this summer? Come to one of the information sessions this week! On Wednesday, March 15 and Thursday, March 16 and 4PM Dr. Sheryl Kroen will hold information sessions on the History Honors Program in the history conference room(downstairs in Keene-Flint–across the hall from the main office). If you […]
The Department of History is proud to announce the Gary and Eleanor G. Simons Lecture for 2017, which will feature Dr. Alexander Hill of the University of Calgary. Dr. Hill’s talk, “Stalin’s Red Army at War, 1939-1945” will take place at 5:30 pm in G186 McCarty Hall on the campus of the University of Florida. […]
History Professor Jack Davis will publish his long awaited book, The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea in March 2017 with W.W. Norton. The official launch will be on March 12, 2017 at the Oxford Exchange in Tampa. Here is a brief description of what will prove to be another excellent book in the […]
A new speaker series will feature new and cutting-edge work of historians working on questions relating to ‘multicultural Europe’ in earlier historic moments. The History Department is a co-sponsor of this program, which ties into departmental interests in comparative empires, intercommunal relations, transnationalism, and globalization. Stay tuned for announcements regarding these events!
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The History Department congratulates our new colleague, Dr. Nancy Rose Hunt, on the publication of her book entitled, A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo with Duke University Press. This book draws out the anxiety and resilience of the people of post-colonial Belgian Congo, using medicine as a way to join these seemingly […]
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The History Department congratulates Dr. Nina Caputo on her new graphic history, published with Oxford University Press, entitled Debating Truth: The Barcelona Disputation of 1263. This creative blend of art, primary sources, and historical commentary offers a unique perspective on the debate between a Dominican Friar and the Jewish scholar Nahmanides over the Messiah as […]
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The History Department congratulates Elizabeth Dale on the publication of her new book, Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871-1971. We’ve all heard of Richard Wright’s famous novel from 1940, Native Son; Dr. Dale’s book uses the actual case that inspired Wright’s work as a window into the failure of the criminal justice system […]
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The History Department is proud to announce the publication of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s new book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation Books, 2016). In this book, Dr. Kendi explores the long historical construction of racism in American thought through the eyes of five major (and iconic) thinkers: […]
Congrats to Dr. Michael Schuering on the publication of his new book entitled, “Bekennen gegen den Atomstaat“. Die evangelischen Kirchen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die Konflikte um die Atomenergie (“Professing against the Atomic State”. The Protestant Churches in West Germany and the Conflicts Concerning Atomic Energy (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2015) This book explores the intersection […]
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The History Department is proud to promote Dr. Jeffrey Needell’s new edited collection entitled Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power, published this year by the University Press of Florida. The contributors to this volume take an interdisciplinary look at Brazil’s rise to economic prominence and the dynamic changes that have occurred as a […]
The History Department is very proud to announce the publication of Dr. William Link’s new book entitled Southern Crucible: The Making of an American Region. Dr. Link is the Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History and Southern Crucible draws upon his extensive experience researching, writing, and teaching the history of the U.S. South. Oxford University Press […]
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The History Department is always proud to offer a diverse range of courses for both our seasoned majors and newcomers–all are welcome and there are no prerequisites for these upper division offerings. You can navigate through the slideshow below to see some of our offerings and click on the thumbnail to view the larger flyer.
The History Department is proud to announce the publication of Dr. J. Matthew Gallman’s book, Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front with the University of North Carolina Press. Dr. Gallman interrogates the meaning of citizenship and duty during this pivotal time in American history through an analysis […]
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The History Department is proud to announce the impending publication of Dr. J. Matthew Gallman’s new book, Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War, which he co-edited with Gary Gallagher and will appear in April 2015 with the University of Georgia Press. The book presents both iconic and unfamiliar photographs from the […]
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Congrats to Dr. Luise White, who is publishing her new book, Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization, with the University of Chicago Press. White challenges the traditional narrative that describes the way that African states transitioned from colony to state in the 20th century. “The result is one of the most decisive challenges to linear […]
The History Department is pleased to announce the first of the 2014-15 George E. Pozzetta Lectures. Dr. Michelle Campos, Associate Professor of History, will present on “Urban History in the Digital Age: Mapping Intercommunal Relations and Social Networks in Late Ottoman Jerusalem,” on Thursday, 31 October 2014 at 4 p.m. in the History Department’s Conference […]
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UF History major Jackson Loop (’14) has just been named the winner of the “Best Qualitative Research Paper” from The Center for Undergraduate Research at the University of Florida. His paper, entitled “The Astor Place Riot: Anti-Aristocratism Voiced with a Cobblestone,” will be published next year in the Center’s journal, Journal of Undergraduate Research.