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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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$11,000 given out by History Department in Scholarships at its Annual Phi Alpha Theta Banquet

April 15, 2025

‘Cold War Country’ garners international acclaim for MSU historian

June 13, 2025

‘Cold War Country’ garners international acclaim for MSU historian

June 13, 2025

‘Cold War Country’ garners international acclaim for MSU historian

June 13, 2025

‘Cold War Country’ garners international acclaim for MSU historian

June 13, 2025

Charles Jones Selected as the University's Humanities Graduate Student of the Year

April 16, 2025

History Major Sydney Denton named Rhodes Scholar Finalist

November 4, 2024

Thompson in Time Magazine, Teen Vogue and On the Media-Barbier on the BBC

June 10, 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

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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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

Testing Hearing. The Making of Modern Aurality