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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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A Little About A Lot

January 10, 2023

Ryan Reynolds Nets Moody Foundation Research Award

October 29, 2022

Professor Stanly E. Godbold Publishes History of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Family

October 10, 2022

Xavier Sivels Wins Dr. Harold Grier Doctoral Scholars Award

September 26, 2022

History Resource Center to Assist in Student Success

August 3, 2022

Professor Marshall on U.S. Grant and a Possible Posthumous Promotion to General of the Armies of the U.S.

December 5, 2022

Call for Papers: Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History 2023 (SFARE)

November 15, 2022

Annual SHUR Conference Offers Undergraduates from Across America Intellectual Opportunity and Southern Charm

November 15, 2022

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 now

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