Georgia College Center for Georgia Studies

04/13/2022

Please join us Thursday, April 21st for this special presentation by Milledgeville's own Jon Jackson. This event will take place at 4 pm in Georgia College's A&S Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.

04/08/2022

Upcoming event at GC with Jon Jackson of Comfort Farms. It is free and open to the public, April 21, 2022 at 4 pm in the A&S Aud.

Between Family, Friends and Farming I'm gonna be super busy this year. Catch me Callaway Gardens next week and then I'm back in Milledgeville at Georgia College. I can't wait to see the wonderful folks Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company for their Spring Festival. Missouri folks meet me there. If your looking for great discussion and amazing food join me at the Lockerly Arboretum with the Garden Club of Georgia... Chef Andy Andersen will accompany me to create an amazing Comfort Farm to table menu for lunch. Then I'm closing out spring with Microsoft Global talking to upward of 300k employees on the "Burdens of the 1%"

Tickets and or registration is available for each event. Look forward to seeing you soon

03/05/2022

Mark Huddle interviews historian Michael Stewart Foley about his great new book, Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash. Great book and excellent conversation.

Almost two decades after his death, country music artist Johnny Cash maintains a hallowed place in American culture. Revered for the way he wrote and sang America into song, he’s equally admired for t

03/03/2022

Join us Monday, March 7th, as the Center for Georgia Studies and Global Foodways Certificate Program welcome John T. Edge to campus for our Spring Lecture 2022.

John T. Edge is one of this country’s foremost experts on Southern foodways. He is the author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, and has been awarded two MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Awards by the James Beard Foundation. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Garden & Gun, and the Oxford American. He currently hosts the television show TrueSouth which airs on the SEC Network and ESPN.

The lecture begins at 4 p.m. at Peabody Auditorium. This presentation is free and open to the public. For additional information, contact Mark Huddle at [email protected].

03/01/2022

Tune in tonight at 8 for a conversation between Center for GA Studies Director Mark Huddle and Historian Michael Stewart Foley about the book Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash.

02/27/2022

New radio product this week! Check it out. Thanks to historian Michael Stewart Foley and WRGC 88.3 FM .

Citizen Cash · Playlist · 19 songs

02/08/2022

Tonight on Georgia College Connections, we talk with Sociologist Sandra Godwin about her book “A White Liberal College President in the Jim Crow South: Guy Herbert Wells and the YWCA at Georgia State College for Women, 1934-1953”
On Thursday, Godwin will give a presentation on the book for the Center for Georgia Studies. This week, you have two opportunities to learn about a racial reckoning at one of the most unlikely of places: a segregated women’s college in the Jim Crow South.
Tune in tonight at 8 to hear an interview with author Sandra Godwin or hear her presentation on the book this Thursday via Zoom. Follow the link to learn more about Godwin's presentation for the Center for Georgia Studies: https://frontpage.gcsu.edu/node/9934

02/04/2022

02/02/2022

The Center is pleased to announce the second in our "Community Conversations Series" highlighting the important work of faculty at Georgia College. Dr. Sandra Godwin, Department of Sociology, will be our honored guest, Thursday, February 10th at 7 p.m. to talk about her excellent new book, "A White Liberal College President in the Jim Crow South: Guy Herbert Wells and the YWCA at Georgia State College for Women, 1934-1953," published by Mercer University Press. Please join us as we celebrate Dr. Godwin's achievement and learn more about a fascinating period in our College's history.

This is a Zoom presentation. Please contact Mark Huddle at [email protected] for the invitation.

12/08/2021

Looking for a jab or booster? Baldwin County School District has you covered.

Baldwin County Schools continue their efforts to make COVID-19 Vaccines Accessible to everyone in the Schools community.
They will hold another vaccine clinic between noon and 6 p.m., tomorrow [Thursday, December 9] at the Board Offices.

12/07/2021

Tonight!

As our recent grasp of epidemiology begins with the pain and suffering inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic; so too does the development of epidemiology begin with the pain and suffering inflicted during centuries of colonialism, slavery and war.
Tonight, historians Jim Downs and Mark Huddle trace the converging lines of disease and depravity that resulted in modern epidemiology.
Tune in at 8 when Center for Georgia Studies Director Mark Huddle talks with historian Jim Downs about his book Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine.

10/26/2021

The Center for Georgia Studies is pleased to welcome Dr. Evan Kutzler, Associate Professor of History at Georgia Southwestern State University for our Fall Lecture. His talk will be Thursday, November 11th at 7 p.m. It is a Zoom presentation. Please contact Mark Huddle to get the link ([email protected]).

Dr. Kutzler is an expert on Andersonville Prison and Southwest Georgia during the Civil War and Reconstruction. His lecture will focus on the African American school that was started near Andersonville in the aftermath of the war.

This public lecture is sponsored by the Center for Georgia Studies and the Department of History and Geography at Georgia College. Come one, come all!