Join others in this interactive class to learn more about the Hargrett Library's current project to identify, digitize, and transcribe records related to enslavement in Georgia. Participants will learn more about the grant project and work in pairs to transcribe documents. These transcripts, along with digital images of the documents, will be made freely available through the Digital Library of Georgia. Members should plan to bring a personal laptop or tablet in order to type their transcripts.

Because of international trade, the U. S. has been able to access the world’s talent, resources, and products. Recently, however, a growing bipartisan consensus holds that trade has hollowed out our manufacturing sector, crushed jobs, destroyed communities, and deepened inequality. This consensus favors protectionism. We will explore the arguments for and against free trade. Does it kill jobs? Benefit consumers? Threaten national security? Are trade deficits bad? We will consider the economic and political implications of protectionism, paying particular attention to tariffs and our trade relations with China.