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The Story of Us

To study history is to learn and understand from the vast and diverse experiences of those who have come before us and to provide us possibilities and insight into how to manage the complexities of our contemporary world.

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Department News

The Mississippi State University History Department is a highly research-active department, intimately involved in the profession and with the world in a myriad of ways.

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You missed it. The Mississippi State University Party at the Southern on Saturday November 11 has now passed.

November 3, 2023

Mississippi State History To Hold 15th Annual SHUR Conference

October 4, 2023

Courtney Thompson Wins Nursing Clio prize for Best Article

September 7, 2023

Highly Successful History Resource Center Now Open for its Second Year

August 23, 2023

A Little About A Lot

August 22, 2023

Professor Courtney Thompson Receives Beverly B. and Gordon W. Gulmon Dean's Eminent Scholar Award

October 20, 2023

Kymara Sneed is Awarded the 2023 Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Fellowhip

July 24, 2023

Susanna De Stradis earns the Shaheen Award in the Humanities

June 23, 2023

Journals
Our research is international.

Mississippi State University History faculty guide the creation and dissemination of new historical knowledge as they edit an extraordinary number of cutting edge international history journals.

Isis fall 2023

Isis, the journal of The History of Science Society

Early American Studies

Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, a publication of The McNeil Center for Early American Studies

For the EAS miscellany, click  https://web.sas.upenn.edu/earlyamericanstudies/

War in History cover

War in History, a Sage Publication.

Environmental History cover

Environmental History, the Journal of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society

Recent Publications

View our faculty's most recent books.

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Morgan J. Robinson

A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili

Alan I Marcus

Land of Milk and Money. The Creation of the Southern Dairy Industry

Andrew F. Lang

A Contest of Civilizations. Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era

Viktoria Tkacyk, Mara Mills, and Alexandra Hui

Testing Hearing. The Making of Modern Aurality

Courtney E. Thompson

An Organ of Murder. Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America