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[PAST EVENT] Oceans of Grain: Black Paths, Food Preservation & the Place of the Empire
September 21, 2022
5pm - 7pm
Join the Global Research Institute, in conjunction with the Department of History, to welcome Scott Nelson. Scott Nelson is the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of History at UGA. His 2006 book Steel Drivin' Man, about the legend of John Henry, won four national awards including the Curti Prize for best book in US history. His latest book, Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World, compares the conflicts over western American expansion in the Civil War to conflict over Russian expansion into the Black Sea.