Authored by students in Professor Eckelmann Berghel’s Modern Civil Rights Struggle class in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) Department of History in Fall 2018, this exhibit explores the integration in the public schools and UTC, youth activism, Black Power, and white opposition in Chattanooga during the Civil Rights Movement.
History Button Design Contest
The Department of History cordially invites current history majors to participate in our “Button Design Contest.” The button will be worn by you, history majors, to show pride on and off the UTC campus and to recruit more students into our program. The History Department faculty will decide on a winner, who will receive a prize.
UTC Advisor Theresa Blackman on Why You Should Consider Majoring in History
Theresa Blackman is an academic advisor in the Center for Advisement. She majored in history as an undergrad, and thinks you should consider majoring in history too. Theresa’s experience and advice exemplify why majoring in history is such a smart choice.
History Professor’s Book Wins Prestigious Award
John Swanson’s book, “Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary,” was recently honored with the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, a major prize for scholars researching and writing about Central and Eastern Europe.
Dr. James Guilfoyle’s New Book Chapter
Dr. James Guilfoyle published a book chapter on “Ireland, Mercantilism, and the Navigation Acts, 1660-86” in the volume entitled Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662-2016 edited by Douglas Kanter and Patrick Walsh (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).