News and Features

Prof. Charles Upchurch has been invited to deliver the inaugural Allan Horsfall Lecture at the British National Conference of LGBT History, which will be held in Manchester on February 14, 2015.

Michael Bryant will deliver the World War Two Institute's Third Annual Fall Lecture, "Speaking the Name of the Unspeakable: the West German Treblinka Trial, 1964-65.”

Edward E. Baptist (Cornell) will speak on his book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism on Monday, Oct. 6 at 1:00 PM in Strozier Library.

Last month, Oxford University Press released Prof. Alex Aviña's book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside.

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Robin Bates to the department. Dr. Bates, a specialist in French political culture and education after 1789, received his Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Chicago.

This week Katherine Mooney, our new historian of the 19th century US south, published Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack (Harvard University Press).

The Department of History has lost one of its most cherished benefactors. On April 15th, Dan Walbolt passed away after a short illness.

The irreplaceable James Jones, who retires this week after 57 years, was recently the subject of a Tallahassee Democrat article and video.