A pharmaceutical company got an angry backlash after buying the rights to a lesser-known medication--and then increasing the price five thousand percent. Joseph Gabriel and Jeremy Greene discuss the issue with Rob Ferrett.
News and Features
FSU history alum (and current American Historical Association president) Vicki Ruiz is among the recipients of the 2014 National Humanities Medal, the White House announced on Friday.
Elaine Carey, Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at St. John's University in Queens, New York, returns to FSU on Wednesday, October 7 to lecture on “Doing Drugs in the Archives: Fictions, Facts, and Histories of Women Drug Traffickers” at 5:00PM in Strozier Library’s Scholars Commons, Room 5.
Prof. Katherine Mooney's book Racehorse Men: How Slavery and Freedom were made at the Racetrack has received honorable mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organizational of American Historians.
Prof. Alex Aviña was interviewed by New Books in History about his Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (Oxford University Press, 2014).
In a recent issue of Perspectives on History, the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, Dr. Vicki L Ruiz, the President of the AHA, reflected on the gift of mentorship.
Professor Jennifer Koslow was featured on the American Historical Association's blog AHA Today on April 1.
My book is a study of the intellectual property and the pharmaceutical industry in the nineteenth-century United States
FSU History invites you to its first annual James P. Jones Lecture in American History. Brian Delay(UC Berkeley) will speak on "Dambreaking: Mercantilism, Armaments, and the Demolition of Europe's America."