RECENT NEWS

Long Strange Trip: a Grateful Dead Documentary Series

Screening #1: Led by Dr. Richard Barton
Friday, November 16, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
Greensboro Project Space, 219 W. Lewis St., Greensboro

Long Strange Trip is a six-part documentary series about the rock band the Grateful Dead Directed by Amir Bar-Lev. It will be screened at the Greensboro Project Space on November 16th, February 8th, and April 26th paired with discussions hosted by guest speakers as part of UNCG's 1960s programs: https://vpa.uncg.edu/home/sixties/another-year-of-the-dead/. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2189346901337669/

Screening # 1: "The Band," led by Associate Professor of History, Richard Barton. It's Alive & This is Now. The series premiere explores how the band was created and commits itself to constant change. The second episode illuminates how the Grateful Dead scored success on their own terms, yet sabotaged their chances at superstardom.

Sponsored by UNCG Department of Religious Studies, UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts, and UNCG Greensboro Project Space.

Resistance to Injustice, a lecture by Dr. Linda B. Brown
Saturday, November 17, 2018, 3-5 p.m.
International Civil Rights Center & Museum, 134 S. Elm St., Greensboro, NC

In 1963, a wave of protestors fought segregation in Greensboro. Many of them were arrested and detained at the Greensboro Polio Hospital. This lecture is part of an exhibit and series of programs to commemorate the complicated history of the polio hospital. Please come and share your story.

Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to this free event at go.uncg.edu/poliohospital. For disability accommodations, please contact: uncgmuseumstudies@gmail.com or 336-334-5645.

Sponsored by UNCG Department of History, International Civil Rights Center & Museum, North Carolina Humanties Council, and the Greensboro History Museum.

Levenstein Contributes to Journal of American History Podcast

Associate Professor Lisa Levenstein contributed to a podcast in September 2018 by the Journal of American History (JAH) about the Beijing Women's Conference of 1995. The podcast can be accessed at http://jah.oah.org/podcast/.

Dr. Levenstein's contribution is based on her recent article in the JAH: "A Social Movement for a Global Age: US Feminists and the Beijing Women's Conference of 1995," Journal of American History 105:2 (September 2018): 336-65.

Parsons Publishes "From Asylum to Prison"

Dr. Anne Parsons' research on the history of mass incarceration of individuals with mental illnesses has culminated in a new book: "From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945."

Published in early October by UNC Press, "From Asylum to Prison" charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals and mental health policy making. Read more in Campus Weekly.

Chelsea Stewart Wins AWRN Travel Grant

Dr. Christopher Hodgkins, Director of the Atlantic World Research Network, announced that M.A. history/museum studies student Chelsea Stewart won a 2018-19 AWRN Graduate Student Research Grant. Stewart will use her grant to support her travel to Newport, Rhode Island for the pursuit of research on the Vernon shipping family in area archives and sites. Her project promises to bring new insight into the role of northern shipping interests in the transatlantic slave trade.

70th Anniversity Polio Hospital Event
RESCHEDULED: Sunday, November 4, 2-4 p.m.
710 Huffine Mill Rd., Greensboro, NC

Help remember the Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital. After just three months of fundraising and construction, the hospital opened on October 11, 1948, in response to the North Carolina polio epidemic.

Join us at the hospital site to commemorate the hospital's opening with speakers and stories from the community and an exhibit about the site's history presented by students in UNCG's M.A. in History/Museum Studies program.

Refreshments provided. Please RSVP to the event at: go.uncg.edu/poliohospital.

Sponsored by UNCG Department of History, the Greensboro History Museum, and People & Paws 4 Hope. For disability accommodations, please email UNCGMuseumStudies@gmail.com or call 336-334-5645.

"The Agony of Mosul Under ISIS"
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 3:30-5 p.m.
Elliot University Center, Maple Room

Noor Ghazi will be presenting her original research on the situation in Mosul and her recent visit there. Following her talk there will be an open discussion with Dr. Jerry Pubantz from Political Science Department of University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Dr. Jeremy Rinker from UNCG Peace & Conflict Studies and Dr. Asa Eger from UNCG Department of History.

This event is sponsored by Living Learning Communities, Islamic Studies Research Network and the UNCG Humanities Network and Consortium, UNCG Office of Intercultural Engagement, The Department Religious Studies - UNCG, UNCG Peace & Conflict Studies, and Lloyd International Honors College at UNCG.

"Care & Custody: A History of Mental Health and Incarceration"
Thursday, Oct. 25, 5:30-7 p.m.
Greensboro Project Space, 219 W. Lewis St., Greensboro

Dr. Anne Parsons will discuss her new book From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945.

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance. Parsons shows how the lack of community-based services, fear-based politics around mental illness, and the economics of institutions meant that closing mental hospitals fed a cycle of incarceration that became an epidemic.

Sponsored by Greensboro Project Space and the UNCG Department of History. Refreshments will be provided.

"Living with Little Corpses in Late-Roman and Early Medieval Britain"
Dr. Robin Fleming, Professor of Early Medieval History, Boston College
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 6-8 p.m.
Elliot University Center, Dail Room

Invited Scholar Lecture. Stillborn and infant burials are a standard feature of Roman-period settlements and urban cemeteries in Britain. This, however, is not true for early medieval sites, where infants rarely make an appearance. But because of the great chasm dividing Romanists from medievalists, the changing fate of little corpses has gone unnoticed. This talk will explore the ways a handful of not very fancy communities during the late-Roman and early medieval periods dealt with their dead babies. Little corpses can help us pinpoint some of the profound transformations in the lived experience and thought worlds of people in Britain first under and then after Rome that are completely unwitnessed by texts. They are useful in helping us track the ways a variety of ordinary Britons experienced the withdrawal of the Roman state from Britain.

Sponsored by the UNCG Department of History, UNCG Archaeology Program, and UNCG Humanities Network and Consortium.

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"Vietnam: The Chemical War"
Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
SOEB 120

This is a special joint event organized by the Department of History, Human Rights Research Network, and the University of Libraries in conjunction with the Campus-Wide Interdisciplinary Event, "The '60s: Exploring the Limits". We will start with a film screening of "Story of from the Corner of a Park" and then environmental historian David Biggs will give a talk on the topic. For more information; https://sites.google.com/uncg.edu/hrrn/current-film-series

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Screening: Selma
Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
SOEB 120

In conjunction with the Campus-Wide Interdisciplinary Event "The '60s: Exploring the Limits," the Human Rights Research Network film series, which focuses on films from or about the 1960s. For more information: sites.google.com/uncg.edu/hrrn/

Screening: The Fog of War
Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
SOEB 120

In conjunction with the Campus-Wide Interdisciplinary Event "The '60s: Exploring the Limits," the Human Rights Research Network film series, which focuses on films from or about the 1960s. For more information: sites.google.com/uncg.edu/hrrn/ Support provided by Political Science, the University Libraries, the International & Global Studies, Peace & Conflict Studies, History, Geography, & Phi Beta Kappa. For disability accommodations, please contact Agnes Szarka, a_szarka@uncg.edu

Gatson Hired as Visiting Assistant Professor in Public History

The UNCG Department of History is pleased to announce that Dr. Torren Gatson will be joining us as our Visiting Assistant Professor in Public History at the start of the fall term. Gatson's research focuses on historic preservation, material culture, 18th-20th century United States history, African American history, and southern history. Dr. Gatson defended his dissertation "The Combative Tactics of the NAACP Against Unfair Housing Laws and Practices: A Comparative Study of the Dynamic Changes in Urban and Rural Landscapes 1920-1960" in March of this year at Middle Tennessee State University. He will be teaching two undergraduate courses this fall: HIS 213, Topics in American History: "The Quest for African American Citizenship throughout American History" and HIS 317, "Creating a Public Past: History Beyond the University." Click here to see course descriptions for Summer and Fall 2018 classes.

Dr. Warren Milteer Joins UNCG History

The UNCG Department of History is pleased to announce the hire of a new assistant professor of early American history and to welcome back one of our own to Greensboro! Dr. Warren Milteer earned his Ph.D. degree in history from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2014 and his M.A. degree in History from UNCG in 2009. He will join our faculty this fall after holding assistant professor positions at Virginia Tech and the University of South Carolina. Milteer's research focuses on the history of free people of color (people of African American and American Indian descent) in North Carolina from the colonial era through the Reconstruction era of the late nineteenth century. Two of his journal articles have won the R. D. W. Connor Award for the best article in the North Carolina Historical Review in 2014 and 2016. Dr. Milteer will teach a variety of early America history courses, the History of North Carolina, the role of Race in American history, the history of interactions between African and Native American peoples, and graduate reading seminars. He tells us that "I am excited to work with a diverse body of students who bring a variety of life experiences and ideas to the classroom. I plan to show them how to use historical knowledge as a tool to connect the past, present, and future." Dr. Milteer is also excited about returning to his native state: "I am delighted to be returning to North Carolina and look forward to reconnecting with old friends and developing new relationships." Please join us in welcoming Dr. Milteer back home!

Annual History Graduate Student Conference
Thursday, April 26, 2018
MHRA 1215, 2211, 3204, 3208, and 3501, 9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The History Graduate Student Conference will be held on Thursday April 26, 9:00 am-1:00 pm (Reading Day) in MHRA. This year's conference features paper presentations by graduating MA students and Senior Honors students, along with poster presentations by Museum Studies students, MA students who participated in the Graduate Research Expo, and Library Science students and faculty who worked on the Runaway Slave digital database. Download the conference program in PDF format.

"The Legacy of Pirates: Lesser Known Sea Lords to Legends"
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
MHRA 1215, 7:00 p.m.

The History Club will host their biannual panel at 7 pm in MHRA 1215. Refreshments start at 6:30 PM. Presentations will be given by Dr. Anderson, Dr. Oakley, and Dr. Rupert. Don't miss out on this great event! Students will also be able to sign up for information about future History Club events.

Harriet Elliott Lecture Series
"Challenge of Building a National Museum"
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
6:30-8:00 p.m.
UNCG School of Music Recital Hall

Lecture by Lonnie Bunch (Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) exploring the history and struggle to create the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

"History for the People: African American and Civil Rights Histories in Museums"
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Ferguson 100

Panel Discussion featuring: Lonnie Bunch, John Swaine (The International Civil Rights Center and Museum), and Angela Thrope (Assistant Director of African American Heritage Commission)

"History Matters: Searching for LGBT History"
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
EUC, Alexander Room

Talk by John D'Emilio (Professor Emeritus of History and Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago) with a response form Mandy Carter, (Co-founder of Southerners on New Ground and the National Black Justice Coalition).

The 1892 Edition of the Historian is Online!

Our annual department newsletter, The Historian has just been published. This year's edition celebrates the 125th anniversary of the founding of UNCG, as well as the accomplishments of our faculty, students, and alumni during the past academic year. Access it here, and be sure to follow UNCG History Department's Facebook page for the latest news throughout the year.