The Department of History is pleased to co-sponsor this free, public, and timely lecture at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center on Monday, November 5th at 7:00pm. The speaker, Dr. Paul Finkelman, is a foremost scholar of American legal and constitutional history (as well as the president of Gratz College), and will be lecturing on “The Second American Revolution, 1865-1870: Putting Civil Rights into the U.S. Constitution.”
Take a History Course, Do Good
Highlights from a recent article in The Washington Post by Ronald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, on why taking history and other humanities courses benefits us all.
Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
A lecture by Award-Winning Historian Dr. Chad Williams, Brandeis University; Thursday, November 8, 2018, 5:00 PM; University Center Auditorium.
Jared Thorne Artist Talk
Jared Thorne Artist Talk; Part of the Cress Gallery exhibition “The Clamor of Ordinary Things”; Monday, October 29, 2018, 5:30 – 6:30pm; Fine Arts Center, Room 356; Exhibition dates: October 29th – December 12, 2018.
News and Highlights from Ed Johnson Events
On September 16-18 the UTC Department of History and the University of the South hosted Dr. Amy Wood of Illinois State University for an event series on the lynching of Ed Johnson in Chattanooga. Check out the news coverage and pictures from the events.