News and Features

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.”

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.

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.