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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.
Charles Jones Selected as the University's Humanities Graduate Student of the Year
April 16, 2025
$11,000 given out by History Department in Scholarships at its Annual Phi Alpha Theta Banquet
April 15, 2025
Mississippi State History Club Up and Running
April 15, 2025
Alistair Hobson on the Politics of Emotional Sovereignty for New Line Magazine
March 17, 2025
Rolling Stone Dubs Thompson's Book Among "Best of 2025"
December 26, 2024
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.
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, a Sage Publication.
Environmental History, the Journal of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society
Joseph M. Thompson
Cold War Country. How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism
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