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Many archives and libraries in Georgia digitize archival materials and make them accessible to the public via the Digital Library of Georgia: an online platform that shares Georgia’s history and culture. This class will discuss how to access these primary sources and will consider how such records have the power to help us share stories about the histories of our local communities. We will practice such storytelling by reviewing a curated set of documents related to student life at UGA at the turn of the twentieth century—looking specifically at materials from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Fee: $12.00
Capacity Remaining: 96
Dates: 5/12/2023 - 5/12/2023
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: Danielle Gilman
Building: Online via Zoom
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Dr. King epitomizes the twentieth-century freedom struggle in the state and nation. Yet, as this class will examine, current civil rights scholarship also decenters his role. Dr. McCaskill will discuss how her students involved in the Civil Rights Digital Library Project revisited King's legacy, and how this archive tells a fuller story of civil rights that is inclusive of Dr. King but makes visible and nuances more groups, places, and strategies. Using examples from her recent Digital Clinton place-based student team, Dr. McCaskill will explain why no study of the civil rights movement is complete without discussing the "hard histories" of slavery.
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Fee: $12.00
Capacity Remaining: 21
Dates: 2/6/2023 - 2/6/2023
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Barbara McCaskill
Building: River's Crossing
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Charleston and Savannah, separated by a mere ninety miles, were the most carefully planned cities in the English-speaking colonies. The course explores how the legacy of their origins has influenced each city across three centuries of intwined history.
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Fee: $12.00
Capacity Remaining: 67
Dates: 4/28/2023 - 4/28/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: Thomas Wilson
Building: Online via Zoom
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For those concerned about racism in this country, this beautifully written book will make a difference. As one reviewer notes: "Informed by scholarship and brought to life by the stories of people living today, Dr. Smith's debut work of nonfiction is a landmark of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be." Each class meeting will focus on discussion of about fifty pages of Dr. Smith’s book. Participants should have read the fifty pages before each class.
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Fee: $48.00
Capacity Remaining: 5
Dates: 2/15/2023 - 3/15/2023
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 5
Days: W
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Instructor: Dale Goodhue
Building: River's Crossing
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Northwestern Georgia is renowned for its rich history of tufted textile production. In the early twentieth century enterprising women hand tufted candlewick bedspreads that sold through department stores and roadside businesses. By the early 1920s they created modern tufted clothing in addition to the popular spreads. While focusing on the production of garments, Callahan will discuss the mechanization of the craft and its evolution to chenille and carpet, while addressing the importance of the Colonial Revival, Georgia's contributions to fashion history, and the influence of automobile culture.
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Fee: $12.00
Capacity Remaining: 34
Dates: 2/28/2023 - 2/28/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Ashley Callahan
Building: Off Site
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The City of Darmstadt is located south of Frankfurt and east of the Rhine River in west central Germany. During WW2 the citizens of Darmstadt reportedly believed that the Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command was not going to target their city due to their connection with the British Royal Family. Queen Victoria's Grand Daughter lived near Darmstadt and the Queen herself had visited the city in the 1890s. This illusion came to a shattering end the night of September 10-11, 1944 -- the night the citizens of Darmstadt call "Brandnacht" -- the Fire Night. Area bombing of the city by the RAF created a violent firestorm that took the lives of over 11,000 residents within hours, the eighth largest death toll by aerial bombardment in WW2. This raid was followed by daylight bombing by the US 8th Air Force the next day. This talk will not try to address the many incriminations against the RAF, but will examine the facts about what happened on that fateful night in 1944. The presenter has visited the city and will include a number of his own photos and impressions.
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Fee: $12.00
Capacity Remaining: 20
Dates: 5/5/2023 - 5/5/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: Bill Cosgrove
Building: River's Crossing
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This class will take place at the Special Collections Libraries, with a visit to a new exhibition, "Freemasonry in Georgia," curated by the presenter, followed by an open discussion/Q&A in a classroom there. The exhibition attempts to convey the principles, symbols, and pervasive importance to the state of Georgia of freemasonry, a secret society that spread across the globe and still exists today, through a range of materials from SCL, including aprons and other regalia, historic photographs and documents, newspaper accounts and publications. Freemasonry's interconnections with the fine arts are also on display.
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Fee: $12.00
Capacity Remaining: 3
Dates: 2/17/2023 - 2/17/2023
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: Alisa Luxenberg
Building: Off Site
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Join author Tracy Adkins to delve into haunted locations across North Georgia to uncover captivating historical details of their past as well as hear the spine-tingling accounts of supernatural activity as told by the souls who lived and worked in these places. From humorous to heartwarming to hard-to-believe, these intriguing tales are more than just Halloween fun. Join this excursion through the vibrant history of North Georgia and meet the spirits who can't seem to say goodbye. You can bring your own copy of Adkins' books (Ghosts of Athens,Ghosts of Athens and Beyond) for autographs.
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Fee: $33.00
Capacity Remaining: 57
Dates: 6/6/2023 - 6/6/2023
Times: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Tracy Adkins
Building: Trumps Catering
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This course will take an intensive look at many of the actions of this pivotal timeframe for the battlefields of Europe during the Second World War. Topics include the liberation of Paris (August 19 to August 25, 1944), when the French Resistance rose up in conjunction with the approach of Patton's US Third Army, and the liberation of Belgium from September 1944 to February 1945. Learn about the ill-fated Operation Market-Garden, an Allied attempt to drive through the Netherlands and into Germany as well as the liberation of the Netherlands eight months later. We'll explore the Battles of Aachen and the Huertgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge and the seizure of the Ludendorff Bridge, also known as the Bridge at Remagen. Light preparatory reading will enhance your classroom experience, and the class helps set the stage for a battlefield tour to the region with the instructor.
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Fee: $48.00
Capacity Remaining: 34
Dates: 2/8/2023 - 3/8/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Sessions: 5
Days: W
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Instructor: Lawrence Saul
Building: River's Crossing
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Warfare has evolved significantly since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. There was a significant shift from large, national armies to Non-State groups, terrorist groups, Private Military Companies, and lone wolf actors. Additionally, the nature of war has also changed. Today, outer space is a battleground, as is the internet and cyber space. This course will explore the evolution in warfare and how the battlefield could be in some far-off distant land, in your neighborhood or in your laptop.
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Fee: $12.00
Capacity Remaining: 15
Dates: 2/1/2023 - 2/1/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Instructor: Lawrence Saul
Building: River's Crossing
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Join Jan Hebbard, Exhibition Coordinator for the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and Maggie Neel, curator of the exhibition "Georgia On My Mind: Finding Belonging in Music History," for a closer look at items from the archives. From Moonshine Kate's banjo to The B-52s' wigs, the class will provide up-close access to meaningful original materials. In investigating these incredible pieces of history, the course will explore Georgia's people, its history, and the importance of music.
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Fee: $12.00
Capacity Remaining: 1
Dates: 3/3/2023 - 3/3/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: Jan Hebbard, Margaret Neel
Building: Off Site
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This class will examine how enslaved people and maroons turned war and armed conflict into opportunities to advance black emancipation and abolition. It traces how enslaved soldiers increasingly militarized resistance to chattel slavery from the end of the seventeenth century to the age of emancipation culminating in abolition during the U.S. Civil War in 1865. This class will take a deeper look into six episodes of soldier resistance in the anglo-atlantic as case studies.
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Fee: $12.00
Capacity Remaining: 95
Dates: 2/6/2023 - 2/6/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: JUSTIN IVERSON
Building: Online via Zoom
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Yellow fever was a very unwelcome visitor to many Southern cities in the 1800s, but New Orleans was its most frequent port of call. By mid-century, after some years without an outbreak, the city's inhabitants began to congratulate themselves for having consigned pestilence to history, only to be hit in 1853 with one of the worst epidemics in city memory. In this class we'll take a close look at the epidemic with the help of newspaper articles from around the country. All eyes were on New Orleans that summer, and the Big Easy it wasn't!
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Fee: $12.00
Capacity Remaining: 17
Dates: 4/27/2023 - 4/27/2023
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Th
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Instructor: Nan McMurry
Building: River's Crossing
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