Georgia College & State University Department of History

Dr. Risch presented his new book, Ukraine’s Euromaidan
From Revolutionary Euphoria to the Madness of War, to faculty and students this past Friday. Congratulations Dr. Risch!

The US Immigration Industrial Complex is a Threat to Everyone If President Dwight D. Eisenhower were alive today, he very well may warn of the ever-growing immigration industrial complex.

"US immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry in which profitability increasingly dictates policy and enforcement priorities."

By: @tylermcbrien.com

inkstickmedia.com/the-us-immig...

An arts panel made up of Trump appointees approves his White House ballroom proposal A federal panel made up of President Donald Trump's appointees has approved his plan to build a massive ballroom on the site of the former White House East Wing.

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a panel made up of Trump appointees, approved the president's White House ballroom proposal.

Jesse Jackson 1941-2026 A photo of Jackson in his later years wearing a Rainbow/PUSH Coalition pin.

The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84.

See his life in pictures: bit.ly/3OxOT3f

The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand.

Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Congratulations to Dr. Doug Oetter, our colleague in the Department of History and Geography, on winning the COAS Faculty Award for Excellence in Service!

Clip HD | The Mortal Storm | Warner Archive YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM

Watch or (Rewatch) "The Mortal Storm" (1940) - Dir. Frank Borzage, about the rise of Nazism (starring Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan).

It so infuriated Joseph Goebbels that he banned it in Germany & also all MGM films.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12s...

Historian William Jay Risch looks back at Euromaidan and Ukraine’s road from ‘revolutionary euphoria to the madness of war’ — Meduza As the full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears its four-year anniversary, The Naked Pravda looks back even further to the origins of the conflict that began nearly 12 years ago. This episode features a d...

Our own Dr. Risch once again bringing cutting edge scholarship on Ukraine!

Elissa Slotkin Says She’s Under DOJ Investigation Over Video Urging Troops To Refuse Illegal Orders The Democratic Senator told the New York Times that the U.S. attorney for D.C., Jeanine Pirro, had written to the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms seeking an interview with her.

The Democratic Senator told the New York Times that the U.S. attorney for D.C., Jeanine Pirro, had written to the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms seeking an interview with her.

On this day in COVID history, January 12, 2020:

COVID-19 - China

Source: WHO

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2020-DON233

Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.

Clarksville veterans say care, not cuts to the Veterans Administration, are needed • Tennessee Lookout Tennessee veterans face worsening chronic illnesses as a result of long waits for care and denial of claims from the Veterans Administration.

“When we enlisted in the military, we were proud to serve our country. We never imagined that, after our service, we would have to fight for our own healthcare.” @tennesseelookout.com

#OtD 30 Oct 1916 members of the radical @IWW union in Everett, WA, who had gone to support a strike were forced to run a gauntlet and beaten: just one of many episodes of savage repression of the working class movt in the US in the early 20th century workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/w...

The Constitution is not self-enforcing.

The only thing holding our Republic together are our norms.

And the only thing that enforces those norms is The People.

No one is coming to save us.

It's entirely up to us.

A very happy birthday to Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, better known as #BelaLugosi, born this day in 1882.

He defined forever the appearance of the #vampire, after starring in the 1931 film #Dracula. He was then immortalised in #gothicrock by #Bauhaus in their 1979 debut single "Bela Lugosi's Dead"

Georgia College invites applications for the position of chair of the Department of History and Geography

We are hiring!

After 80 years, Senate House Library has reunited a rare 14th-century manuscript looted in WWII with the Chandon family. Thanks to expert detective work, MS541 will remain accessible for study, preserving its history for future generations.

www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

On this day in COVID history, September 10, 2021:

Vaccines beat natural immunity in fight against COVID-19

Source: Johns Hopkins University

https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/09/10/infection-from-covid-vs-vaccines/

On this day in COVID history, September 9, 2021:

Biden announces new vaccine mandates that could cover 100 million Americans | CNN Politics

Source: CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/09/politics/joe-biden-covid-speech/index.html

Federal Judge Rules Trump's Deployment of National Guard to Los Angeles Illegal This ruling can set precedent for Trump's deployment to Chicago and elsewhere

NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that Trump’s deployment of military forces to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a law that prohibits the use of the armed forces as a domestic police force.

One of our history alumni, Jessica Scott (third from right), spent this summer doing an intensive language study in South Korea. She'll be starting her second year in the History MA program at Georgetown this week. Go, Jessica!

As historians, we agree.

fdoc!!!