Events

  • Photo of the Author and his Book

    Roots, Heart, Soul: The Story, Celebration, and Recipes of Afro Cuisine in America – Join us for a Tasting! Chef Todd Richards, the James Beard Award–winning author of Soul, is your guide to exploring West African diaspora cooking in the Americas, spanning history from the slave trade through the Great Migration, with over 100 mouthwatering recipes…

  • Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate…

  • Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women is a statewide study of women’s part in the history of conservatism, the New Right, and the Republican Party in the state of Georgia. Robin M. Morris examines how the growth of the Republican Party in…

  • Bon Appétit, Y’all: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking James Beard Award-Winning Chef Virginia Willis returns to the Griffin Campus with a revised and updated version of her bestselling culinary classic,Bon Appétit, Y’all: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking (UGA Press October 2024). Come join the party, which will…