Julie Anne Sweet

Military Studies Minor - find out more about the MILS program!

Areas of Specialization

Colonial & Revolutionary America, US Military History before 1900

Education

Ph.D., University of Kentucky
M.A., University of Richmond
B.A., University of Notre Dame, magna cum laude, History and Theatre

Selected Publications

Books

William Stephens: Georgia’s Forgotten Founder (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010)

Negotiating for Georgia: British-Indian Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733-1752 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005)

Articles (recent)

“Raising Flags, Firing Guns, and Drinking Toasts: Celebrating Holidays in Colonial Georgia.” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 106 (Summer 2022): 248-272.

“Making History Come Alive: The Boston Massacre Trials.” The History Teacher, 54 (May 2021): 509-538.

“Savannah’s Out-Villages of Thunderbolt and Skidaway: Microcosms of the Colonial Georgia Story.” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 105 (Spring 2021): 1-25.

“‘Confin’d as a Lunatick’: The Case of Joseph Watson.” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 103 (Winter 2019): 270-312.

“‘your most Dutiful[,] truly Obliged & most Humble Servant’: John Dobell and the Challenges of Navigating Early Georgia Politics.” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 103 (Spring 2019): 1-29.

“‘a very extraordinary Kind of Creature’: Conflicting Contemporary Perspectives on Christian Priber.” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 118 (January 2019): 60-80.

“John Penrose: A Success Story in Early Georgia.” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 102 (Spring 2018): 1-23.

Selected Activities

Awards (recent)

• Elizabeth Vardaman Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduates, April 2022.
• Outstanding Faculty Award, tenured teaching, May 2021.
• Robert Reid Award for Undergraduate Teaching, May 2021.
• Women in American History Medal, Daughters of the American Revolution, March 2021.

Grants (recent)

• Teaching Innovation Grant, Summer 2023
• Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement (URSA) Grant, Summer 2021.
• University Teaching Development Grant, Summer 2021.

C-SPAN “Lectures on History” Presentation:

• “American Military in the Revolutionary War,” Spring 2019.

Regular Course Offerings

• Undergraduate:
  • HIS 1365 | History of the United States to 1877
  • HIS 4362 | American Colonial History
  • HIS 4363 | American Revolution & Constitution
  • HIS 4393 | American Military History to 1890

Other Courses Taught

• Undergraduate:
  • HIS 3384 | History of Indigenous Peoples of America
  • HIS 4340 | Boston Massacre Trials (Spring 2020)
  • HIS 4340 | Boston Tea Party (Fall 2023)
  • HIS 4365 | The Early Republic, 1789-1860

Work with Students

Willing to advise Undergraduate and Theses and Independent Research