Lisa L. Denmark,
Professor of History

Courses Taught

• Antebellum South (Undergrad/Grad)

• Graduate Readings Seminar-19th Century America (Grad)

• Age of Theodore Roosevelt

• Gilded Age, Progressive Era, and the 1920s

• Georgia History

• Historical Methods

• Senior Seminar: Roaring through the '20s

• Senior Seminar: Coming of the Civil War

• American City (Undergrad/Grad)

Publications

• • Savannah's Midnight Hour: Boosterism, Growth, and Commerce in a Nineteenth-Century American City. University of Georgia Press, 2019. --> Purchase at University of Georgia Press.

"At the Midnight Hour': Economic Dilemmas and Harsh Realities in Post-Civil War Savannah" Georgia Historical Quarterly (2006).

"‘But what a pretty thing a Rail Road is!–We must have one of our own–positively!”: Savannah’s Unique Rhetoric of Internal Improvements.” The Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians (2010)

"Worshiping Bacchus: Prohibition in Savannah, Georgia, 1899-1922." Law, Crime and History (UK) (2011)

Video Presentations

"The State of Chatham: Savannah's Wet Romp through Prohibition," February 2016

“‘But what a pretty thing a Rail Road is! – We must have one of our own – positively!’: the Origins of the Central of Georgia Railroad," February 2017

Affiliations

• • Georgia Association of Historians, Executive Secretary -Treasurer (2021-2024)

  • Southern Historical Association

  • Coastal Museum Association