How do states determine the value of life and health? This is the question that Ben Goff, PhD candidate in French history, asks in his research. On the one hand we cringe at the notion of subjecting life and health to financial considerations; but on the other, the state must not bankrupt itself when treating the medical needs of every suffering citizen.

In 1962, nearly a decade after the landmark Supreme court case Brown v. Board of Education, Florida State University officially changed its admittance policy and opened its doors to African American students.

Justin Vos, a doctoral candidate, in post-Civil War US history, seeks to investigate the role of the Dutch ethnic community and its relationship with North American Christianity, especially post-World War II evangelicalism.

Daria Willis didn’t set out to make history, she set out to study it. But the lessons she learned from the past while earning her doctorate in history at Florida State University, and the mindset she developed through the strong women she idolized along the way, helped to vault her higher than she could have imagined.

Alberto Perez-Rueda, a Master’s student in Public History,  created and designed this exhibition of swords and fencing that just opened at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts.  The exhibit covers a timeline from 1645-2015, and shows swords as weapons of war and dueling, objects of power, and equipment for sport.  Alberto also explored th

Ethnohistorians Patsy West and Andrew Frank talk with Nathan Connolly about the origins of Florida’s indigenous peoples, known as the Seminoles. Andrew Frank speaks about the diverse communities built by the Seminoles – which included both Native Americans and African Americans.

To find out, Marina Ortiz, doctoral candidate in History, went to a lecture by Sarah Milligan, head of the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program. Organized by FSU’s Art History Department, Milligan spoke on oral history and community engagement last Friday.

History major Robert Gonzalez will take you on a brief tour of Florida State’s history.

Horse racing was the first mass-audience sport in the United States, and New Orleans was the home of the highest-class racing in the nation in the pre-Civil War period. The enslaved men who rode and trained at the city's tracks were the first black sports celebrities.

Paul M. Renfro studies United States history since 1945, with specific interests in gender/sexuality, the carceral state, and childhood and the family. Before arriving at FSU, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.