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The History Department at the University of Central Florida offers students an excellent opportunity to cultivate analytical, reading, and writing skills while enhancing their knowledge of history and its role in today's society. Students interested in the professions of law, education, library sciences, public history, international affairs, and public policy will find in history a valuable and rewarding learning experience. The UCF History Department is also home to the Florida Historical Quarterly.

Highlights

February 2010

Amy Foster can be heard in the audio documentary "Rocket Girls and Astronettes" produced by Richard Paul Productions in Washington, DC. The documentary covers the history of women in the U.S. space program. [Read More]

December 2009

The Boston Globe quotes Spencer Downing in an article about the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. Downing's research interests include the histories of television and childhood.

Upcoming Events

Mar 3, 4:00pm
"Yours Always: The Civil War Diaries of Lucy Virginia French"

Mar 31, 4:00pm
Book Presentation: Vladimir Solonari's Purifying the Nation

Recent Faculty Publications

Robert Cassanello, Ph.D.

Publication Image Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 with Colin J. Davis, eds Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010

Vladimir Solonari, Ph.D.

Publication Image Purifying the Nation: Population Exchange and Ethnic Cleansing in Nazi Allied Romania Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

Robert Cassanello, Ph.D.

Publication Image Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration with Melanie Shell-Weiss, eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009

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