The Department of History's 3rd Annual James P. Jones Lecture which will be given on April 21st at 5pm at the Rendina Room, FSU Alumni Center. This year's lecturer will be Jane Kamensky, Professor of History and Pforzheimer Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University.
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Professor Maxine Jones was honored last week by Three Rivers Legal Services and Southern Legal Counsel for her work as principal investigator for the Rosewood Academic Study. In a week-long 1923 rampage, whites murdered eight black residents of Rosewood, Florida, burning the town to the ground, following a false accusation against a black man by a white woman.
Professor Alexander Aviña's Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (Oxford University Press 2014) has been awarded the Maria Elena Martinez Mexican History Book Prize by the Conference on Latin American History.
Dr. Richard Bartlett, historian of the American West and professor of history at FSU for more than three decades, passed away in Knoxville last month.
The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience is holding a conference on Comparative Home Fronts on January 14-16, 2016 at the Hotel Duval.
The Department of History mourns the loss of Joe M. Richardson, Emeritus Professor of History.
The J. Leitch Wright, Jr. awards for excellence in research were presented at the October faculty meeting.
Last month, Professors Katherine Mooney (left) and Nathan Stoltzfus (right) were recognized with Transformation through Teaching awards for helping students to develop both intellectually and personally.
On Monday, November 16, 2015, at 5:30 P.M., the Institute on World War Two II and the Human Experience will host its fall lecture,“The Church of Greece and the Holocaust” by Panteleymon Anastasakis, PhD. The lecture will take place at the FSU Alumni Center’s Rendina Room, 1030 W. Tennessee Street, Tallahassee, Florida. A reception will follow. Please RSVP. Contact us at ww2@fsu.edu.
Colby Ellis, an FSU undergraduate history major and a student of Charles Upchurch, has won this year's Undergraduate Essay Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies for his essay “William III and the Decision to Accept a Joint Constitutional Monarchy.”