News and Features

We are delighted to welcome Kurt Piehler, the new director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, to the FSU history department.

Edward Gray published The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler with Yale University Press.

Jennifer Lisa Koslow published Cultivating Health: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform with Rutgers University Press.

Darrin M. McMahon's recent book, Happiness: A History, has been selected by the New York Times as one of 100 Notable Books of 2006.

Nathan Stoltzfus published Courageous Resistance: The Power of Ordinary People with Palgrave MacMillan.

Kristine C. Harper published Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology with MIT Press.

Department Chair Neil Jumonville published two books: The New York Intellectuals Reader with Routledge and Liberalism for a New Century with the University of California Press.