Adjusting to remote learning or working from home can be a hard transition. If you are used to working in the library, a coffee shop, or an office, finding yourself at home brings new distractions.

Although FSU’s classes have transitioned to online instruction methods, there are still plenty of ways for history majors and other students in history classes to get their history fix—whether it be for scholarly research or personal interest.

John Cable was traveling with a band in Athens, Georgia. The bass player, majoring in Social Science Education, brought numerous books to their room. Dr. Cable grabbed one and began reading. This is how his love for history started.

FSU hosted the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era (CRE) February 27th-29th, celebrating the golden anniversary of the history conference. The 50th anniversary began with a reception held at the DoubleTree Tallahassee, where scholars of the Revolutionary era came to meet from across the globe.

With over 200 copies of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, it is easy to fall down the rabbit hole at FSU’s Special Collections.

            Another day, another coronavirus update, another twitter hashtag, another meme. As the disease continues to spread from its outbreak in Wuhan, China, to more countries, the fear and panic leads to more and more comparisons to historical pandemics, specifically the Black Death.

The History Department will host the annual James P. Jones Lecture at 5 PM on March 5th in the Rendina Room of the FSU Alumni Center. Our speaker is Professor Kathryn Olivarius of Stanford University. Her lecture, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom," is based on her current book project.

Dr. Anasa Hicks is an assistant professor in the History Department specializing in Latin American and Caribbean history. She completed her doctoral degree at New York University 2017, and her research focuses primarily on twentieth-century Cuba, women and gender, and labor studies.

Dr. Flores-Villalobos is an assistant professor of history at The Ohio State University, where she specializes in the history of gender, race, and migration. She earned her PhD from New York University in African Diaspora History. Her talk at FSU represents a portion of her current book project, The Silver Women: Intimacy and Migration in the Panama Canal. In this book, Dr.

FSU at the Capitol Day! February 12, 2020

The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience was there.

From left to right, first row: Mallory McGovern, Beatrice Dain.Second row, left to right: Laran Dixon, Sheighlin Hagerty, Grace Overholt.