News and Features

We recently mailed out the department's newsletter for 2012.

Our PhDs continue to publish at a great clip. In 2012, we counted at least seven new titles--see the list here. If we missed your book, get in touch.

Professor Jim Jones, teacher of generations (and generations), has been awarded FSU's highest honor: a personal parking spot mere steps from the Bellamy building.

Congratulations to Ed Gray on the release of the Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution, which he edited with Jane Kamensky.

Jon Kent Thompson (B.A. expected Spring 2013) was awarded an Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award from the FSU Undergraduate Research Office.

Across the Spectrum, the newsletter of the College of Arts and Sciences, offered a profile of Prof. Jim Jones in its summer issue.

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Garretson, who published A Victorian Gentleman and Ethiopian Nationalist: The Life and Times of Hakim Wärqenäh, Dr. Charles Martin with James Currey in June.

This online course, offered by Prof. Koslow, examines the theory and practice of the ways in which history is collected, preserved, and interpreted using digital mediums.

Peter Simons (PhD Chicago 2012) will join the department this fall as postdoctoral fellow in History of Science/Environmental History of the North.