News and Features

Richard Mizelle was one of the editors of Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita, published by Brookings Institution Press.

We are delighted to welcome Kurt Piehler, the new director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, to the FSU history department.

Frederick R. Davis published The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles: Archie Carr and the Origins of Conservation Biology with Oxford University Press.

Jonathan Grant published Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism with Harvard University Press.

Edward Gray published The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler with Yale University Press.

Jennifer Lisa Koslow published Cultivating Health: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform with Rutgers University Press.

Darrin M. McMahon's recent book, Happiness: A History, has been selected by the New York Times as one of 100 Notable Books of 2006.