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Current Issue: Summer 2026

Check out the ways our students, faculty, and alumni are engaging in scholarship, innovation, excellence, and impact in our Summer 2026 digital newsletter.

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Previous Issues

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    Fall 2025 Newsletter
    A lot has happened since our last newsletter. We have a new department head, we’ve moved from Dunford Hall to the Stokely Management Center (SMC), we’ve welcomed two new faculty members, and we’ve continued to be active and productive scholars. I started as department head on August 1, 2022, when Ernie Freeberg stepped down after heroically serving nine years. I agreed to take this on because we have such a great department, as you’ll see in the stories that follow.
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    Summer 2024 Newsletter
    A lot has happened since our last newsletter. We have a new department head, we’ve moved from Dunford Hall to the Stokely Management Center (SMC), we’ve welcomed two new faculty members, and we’ve continued to be active and productive scholars. I started as department head on August 1, 2022, when Ernie Freeberg stepped down after heroically serving nine years. I agreed to take this on because we have such a great department, as you’ll see in the stories that follow.
  • A picture of Ernie Freeberg
    Summer 2020 Newsletter
    While spring semester 2020 ended without our usual pomp and circumstance, from a safe social distance we have reason to celebrate getting through this most challenging academic year.
  • Correspondence of James K. Polk book jacket
    Spring 2019 Newsletter
    Few individuals have impacted the history of North America as visibly as James K. Polk. As president (1845–49), this Tennessean oversaw the Mexican War and the US acquisition of California and the Southwest.
  • Jack Neely gives a walking tour of the Old Grey Cemetery
    Fall 2018 Newsletter
    The Department of History is honored to award Jack Neely the fourth annual Distinguished Alumnus Award.
  • A picture of Bo Saulsbury
    Fall 2017 Newsletter
    The ability to cut through the digital flotsam and connect with an audience, whether it is a group of corporate executives or a grandmother in Flatbush, is a skill as prized in the professional world as a head for numbers or a sharp working knowledge of digital branding strategies.
  • A picture of Robert “Jeff” Norrell in his office
    Fall 2016 Newsletter
    Without apparent natural talent for writing, Haley worked diligently on his craft for decades and became enormously successful.