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We Believe
Learn about the beliefs and principles of the Georgia Historical Society.
An Evening with Rick Atkinson
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An Evening with Rick Atkinson
Join the Georgia Historical Society as author and historian Rick Atkinson is inducted as the 2019 Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Teaching Fellow. Following the induction, enjoy a lively discussion between Atkinson and Dr. Stan Deaton, the Dr. Elaine B. Andrews Distinguished Historian at the Georgia Historical Society, about Atkinson’s book, The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777.
An Evening with David Blight
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An Evening with David Blight
On November 8, 2018, the Georgia Historical Society hosted a special program with Dr. David W. Blight for the debut of his new book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster), in Savannah. Dr. Blight is one of the country’s most renowned historians of slavery and the Civil War era. He is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and the Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. This program featured a discussion between Dr. Blight and the Georgia Historical Society’s Dr. Stan Deaton about Blight’s groundbreaking new biography of Frederick Douglass, and Douglass’s role in American history. The evening included Dr. Blight's induction as the inaugural Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Teaching Fellow by GHS President and CEO Dr. W. Todd Groce and Vince Dooley.
Interview with David Blight
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Interview with David Blight
Interview with visiting scholar Dr. David Blight at the Georgia Historical Society's 2017 NEH Summer Institute "Recognizing an Imperfect Past: History, Memory, and the American Public." Dr. Blight is Yale University’s Class of 1954 Professor of American History. He is also the Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is currently writing a new, full biography of Frederick Douglass that will be published by Simon and Schuster in early 2018. He is also the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press, 2002), which received eight book awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize as well as four awards from the Organization of American Historians.
Interview with Alexander X. Byrd
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Interview with Alexander X. Byrd
Interview with visiting faculty Dr. Alexander X. Byrd at the 2017 NEH Summer Institute “Recognizing an Imperfect Past: History, Memory, and the American Public.”Dr. Byrd is an associate professor of History at Rice University. His area of expertise is Afro America, especially black life in the Atlantic world and the Jim Crow South.
Interview with Kevin Levin
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Interview with Kevin Levin
Interview with visiting scholar Kevin Levin at the Georgia Historical Society's 2017 NEH Summer Institute "Recognizing an Imperfect Past: History, Memory, and the American Public." Kevin Levin is a public historian and former high school history teacher based in Boston, Massachusetts. He specializes in the history of the American Civil War and for the last ten years has shared that passion with as broad an audience as possible at his website, Civil War Memory. He has taught history on the high school and college levels, most recently as a Visiting Instructor of History at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Interview with Glenn T. Eskew
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Interview with Glenn T. Eskew
Interview with visiting scholar Dr. Glenn T. Eskew at the Georgia Historical Society's 2017 NEH Summer Institute "Recognizing an Imperfect Past: History, Memory, and the American Public." Dr. Eskew is Professor of History at Georgia State University where he teaches courses in southern history. His recent biography, Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013), received the Malcolm and Muriel Barrow Bell Award from the Georgia Historical Society. His book But For Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), received the Francis Butler Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association and Longwood College.
The Black Death
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The Black Death
In our first “Dispatch From Off the Deaton Path,” Dr. Deaton shares his thoughts on The Great Plague by Stephen Porter and how the Black Death compares to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Interview with Anne Sarah Rubin at the Georgia Historical Society
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Interview with Anne Sarah Rubin at the Georgia Historical Society
Interview with visiting scholar Dr. Anne Sarah Rubin at the Georgia Historical Society’s “Recognizing an Imperfect Past: History, Memory, and the American Public.” Anne Sarah Rubin is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she teaches courses on the Civil War, American South, and the Nineteenth Century United States. She is also the Associate Director of the Imaging Research Center. Her most recent book, a study of the many legacies of Sherman’s March is Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory. Her online exploration of Sherman’s March can be found at www.shermansmarch.org.
The Great Flu Pandemic of 1918
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The Great Flu Pandemic of 1918
Listen to GHS Senior Historian Dr. Stan Deaton discuss the great flu pandemic of 1918 in a new installment of Dispatches from Off the Deaton Path.
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