The University of South Alabama Department of History helps students gain an ability to understand unfamiliar people and societies, read and think critically, and write with clarity and precision. With a dedicated faculty covering a diverse array of geographic and intellectual areas, as well as an expansive temporal depth, history majors will not only learn about the past, they will learn to create history.
What Can I Do With a Degree in History?
History majors at South follow many career paths with their degree. Graduates move on to teach students about the past, preserve historic buildings, create museum exhibits, or film documentaries. Others pursue careers in law, journalism and business. Workplaces need employees who can quickly digest large amounts of information, draw logical conclusions from it, and express themselves clearly orally and in writing.
Part of the American Historical Association's nationwide event, We Want More History!
History Harvest, where we get together and bring one physical artifact from our family's history. This doesn't have to be the distant past. It can be a picture of you and your mom, for example! But with these artifacts, we'll tell the stories connected to them.
When? Friday, September 25, 2026
Time? 12:15-2:15pm
Place? HUMB 354 (History Department Conference Room)
Questions? Contact Dr. Rebecca Williams rwilliams@southalabama.edu
Deidra Dees, Historical Poetry and Native American History
Deidra Dees, an instructor of Native American history at South Alabama, will discuss
her new book of historical poetry, Indian Ice
6pm | Marx Library Auditorium
In Search of Phillis Whatley Peters film screening
A documentary film on America's first African-American published poet, and discussion with the filmmakers
Co-sponsored with the Department of English
Tuesday October 13, 4pm, Marx Library Auditorium
USA Foundation and USA Department of History Present the 2026 N. Jack Stallworth Lecture. An End And A Beginning: How Lee's Surrender Shaped the Lost Cause
2026 N. Jack Stallworth Lecture with Dr. Caroline Janney, Professor of the History of the American Civil War, and Director of the John L. Nau III Civil War Center, at the University of Virginia
Wednesday October 14, 2026 - 7:00 p.m.
Laidlaw Performing Arts Center
5751 USA Drive South
Mobile, Alabama 36688
Dr. Michael Fitzgerald, The KKK in Alabama
Co-sponsored with the McCall Library of the University of South Alabama. Dr. Michael Fitzgerald, retired faculty from St Olaf College in Minnesota, will discuss his new book based on one family's involvement in the KKK after the civil war, drawn from the Pickens Papers collections held in the McCall Library at the University of South Alabama . The book is entitled Shades of Complicity: One Family's Experience of Klan Participation (LSU Press, 2026).
Marx Library
