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Tag: Department of History
History Professors Publish Book About Pandemic Year and American Society
From the August 2022 Desktop News | For most people, the events of 2020 may run together, becoming a long year of several major world events wrapped up into one another: a pandemic, a social justice movement, and more. But Drs. Margaret Peacock and Erik Peterson, both history faculty members at The University of Alabama, can pinpoint each day’s events in their new book, A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year (Boston: Beacon Press). The book explores […]
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A&S in the News: July 31 – August 6, 2022
Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for research on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, commentary on a healthcare bill, and more.
A&S in the News: June 19-25, 2022
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Summer Reading List 2022
Reading is proven to reduce stress and increase relaxation. As you relax during the summer months, enjoy these books written by seven A&S faculty from several departments: The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America By Joshua Rothman (History, jrothman@ua.edu) Award-winning historian Dr. Joshua Rothman outlined, “When Americans imagine the slave trade, they typically think about the transatlantic trade that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas. But the trade in enslaved people within the boundaries of the […]
A&S in the News: May 29 – June 4, 2022
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A&S in the News: May 15-21, 2022
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History Professor Publishes Biography of Alabama’s Bankhead Family
From the April 2022 Desktop News | Dr. Kari Frederickson, a professor of history at UA, recently published a biography about the Bankhead family, an Alabama dynasty whose influence spans generations of the state’s history. The book, Deep South Dynasty: The Bankheads of Alabama, explores over eighty years of history, and showcases the rise of one of the most powerful families in the South. “If you start with the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction and go through the […]
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A&S in the News: April 10-16, 2022
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A&S in the News: April 3-9, 2022
Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for Bama Bug Fest, a new hydrology research institute, and more.