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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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Recent Agricultural, Environmental and Rural History PhD.s Create Scholars of the Earth Dissertation Award

May 13, 2022

Professor Courtney Thompson Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend

April 20, 2022

History Department Awards $17,000 in Undergraduate Scholarships to History Majors for the 2022-23 Academic Year

April 18, 2022

A Little About A Lot

April 17, 2022

Susanna De Stradis receives year-long John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2022-2023

March 28, 2022

Professor Anne Marshall named executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the U.S. Grant Presidential Library

January 31, 2022

Professor Alexandra Hui's article, "Listening to Extinction: Early Conservation Radio Sounds and the Silences of Species," Appears in the American Historical Review

January 30, 2022

Mississippi State History Professors Spread Their Research and Message Throughout the United States and Europe

October 19, 2021

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 March 2022 — Isis, **the journal of The History of Science Society**

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

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

Why History? The Story of Us