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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.
Rolling Stone Dubs Thompson's Book Among "Best of 2025"
December 26, 2024
New Book by Ryan Semmes
November 25, 2024
In the Atlantic, Professors Susannah Ural and Ann Daly Discuss the Earliest African American Celebrations of Slavery's End
June 18, 2024
Professor Joseph Thompson on Country Music and the Military
June 7, 2024
Morgan Robinson Finalist for the African Studies Association of UK best book and best first book award
May 8, 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.
Formerly the editorial home of 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
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