News and Features

Producer Mark Baker used the Reichelt Oral History Program’s collection of interviews on the history of the Florida Park Service as background for The Story of Florida’s State Parks, a three-part television series that chronicles the dramatic times and remarkable characters behind the formation of Florida’s award winning state park system.

Andy Bruno (Ph.D. University of Illinois, 2011) will be joining the Department of History at FSU as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2011-12 before becoming an Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University.

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.

Will Hanley wins $50,000 Digital Humanities Startup grant from the NEH.

Pamela Robbins received a University Undergraduate Teaching Award, and Frederick Davis received a University Graduate Teaching Award.

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