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05/13/2026

The Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South and the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama are proud to announce the winner of the 2026 Summersell Deep South Book Prize for the best book on the history of the American South: *This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations* (UNC, 2023) by Whitney Nell Stewart, Executive Director of the Coastal Georgia Historical Society.
https://history.ua.edu/summersell-center-announces-winner-of-the-2026-deep-south-book-prize/

04/27/2026

Next up for our Alumni Spotlight!

04/22/2026

Our next Alumni Spotlight is on our 2014 graduate, William Taliaferro!

We are so proud of you and all of your accomplishments!

04/17/2026

To continue our Alumni Spotlight series, we are highlighting one of our 2004 graduates! We are so thrilled with the amazing things you’ve done after UA!

04/11/2026

The .ua cordially invites you to an evening of elegance and merriment on Friday, April 17, 2026. at the Alabama Museum of Natural History in Smith Hall!

Join the UHS for live music and graceful dancing under the gaze of a 35 million year old Basilosaurus cetoides whale!

Guests are encouraged to wear their finest attire, fit for a ball among high society, and to add an air of mystique, we invite all in attendance to wear a masquerade mask.

The evening shall commence at 7 o'clock, and all who delight in music, refinement, and good company are warmly welcomed.

Purchase your tickets in advance at bit.ly/4tb4Uvu.

03/26/2026

Join us next Monday for a luncheon with Captain Travis Salley, USMA.

Dr. Lesley J. Gordon, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, in conjunction with the Department of History, is excited to host the United States Military Academy at West Point’s Captain Travis G. Salley on Monday, March 30.

Captain Salley will be on campus to discuss his doctoral dissertation, “Sex and Danger, Airborne Ranger: A Historical Analysis of G.I. Songs, Jody Calls, and Marching Cadences,” which was awarded the 2026 Coffman Prize by the Society for Military History and is under contract with The University of Alabama Press.

Captain Salley holds a BA in Music from the University of Nevada-Reno; an MA in Music History from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst; and both an MA and PhD in History from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has engaged in several public presentations including the Vietnam Symposium hosted by the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and the National Archives and has also published peer-reviewed articles with Oxford Music and the Journal of War & Society.

Captain Salley is also an active-duty U.S. Army Officer who serves as an instructor of Military History at the United States Military Academy, where he teaches the HI302: History of the Military Art and HI357: Armed Conflict in the Cold War.

Please join us for his talk and a luncheon with Captain Salley in the Summersell Room (251 ten Hoor) at 12:00 p.m. on Monday, March 30th!

Everyone is welcome and lunch is free! Please join us!

03/23/2026

Please Join Us For Our Guest Lecture on Disney’s Italian Tales by Shannon McHugh This Wednesday, March 25th at 5:00PM in Smith Hall 205!

See Abstract Below For More Information!⬇️

The Walt Disney Company has been adapting fairy tales into films and theme park attractions for over a century. But how exactly did animators go about translating those original stories—their heroes and heroines, their villains, their magical settings—and the cultures that produced them? Dr. Shannon McHugh, specialist in early modern Italian literature and Assistant Director of Research at The Huntington Library in California, unveils how Disney storytellers researched and restyled European tales from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. These creatives studied specific literary editions held in the Library of the Walt Disney Studios, the main reference center for Disney’s writers and artists. The library was built around a core collection of 335 English, French, German, and Italian books that Walt Disney brought back directly from Europe in 1935. This talk also explores the contributions of the library’s most devoted early reader, Bianca Majolie. An Italian-born artist and the first woman writer hired to the studio, Majolie’s cultural competency and fine narrative instincts helped shape early films in ways that would impact Disney fairy tales for decades to come.

🗓️Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
⏰5:00PM
📍Smith Hall 205

03/22/2026

Hope everyone had an amazing and safe spring break!
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Join us this Wednesday, March 25th, to hear what The Huntington Library in Southern California has to offer for University of Alabama grad students and faculty, led by Dr.Shannon McHugh!

🗓️Wednesday, March 25th
⏰1:00PM-2:00PM
📍English Building Room 301
✏️”What Does Huntington Library Have For Me?”, Led By Dr. Shannon McHugh

03/13/2026

Here’s a little recap of The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America’s Revolutionary Era with Mike Bunn!

Thank you Mike Bunn for taking time out of your weekend to speak with us! We had an amazing time

12/13/2025

Faculty Book Spotlight:

Today the history department would like to spotlight our very own, Dr. Lesley Gordon, and her new book, “Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat In the Civil War”

Interested in purchasing a book? The book can be purchased on Amazon or Cambridge University Press!

Congratulations on this huge milestone Dr.Gordon! Your hard work does not go unnoticed

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Tuesday	8am - 4:45pm
Wednesday	8am - 4:45pm
Thursday	8am - 4:45pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

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