In the News
Orlando Family Stage needs memories for centennial History Harvest
September 22, 2026 The RICHES team has been digitizing the theater’s own extensive archive, said program director Connie L. Lester, and hopes to gather more historical information from the public at the History Harvest.
How the different generations view 9/11
September 16, 2026 UCF History Professor Dr. John Sacher joined FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer live.
The Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Creative Futures Awards Open for Applications Sept. 15
September 14, 2026 Applications for the Pabst Steinmetz Creative Futures Awards are open from Tuesday, Sept. 15, through Thursday, Dec. 11, 2026. Two UCF research teams will be selected to receive $25,000 each.
At 75 and 76, they’re back in the classroom
August 31, 2026 At 76, Linda Ebner and her 75-year-old husband, Scott, are taking a UCF history class this semester.
UCF’s Wayne Bowen Selected for Prestigious ACE Fellowship
August 28, 2026 UCF associate vice provost for undergraduate studies and professor of history Wayne Bowen has been selected as a member of the 2026-27 cohort of the American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows Program..
Faculty Bookshelf
Ezekiel Walker
The Nigerian Cocoa Economy at the Crossroads: Growth, Stagnation, and Restructuring in Southwestern Nigeria, 1900-2000s (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2026).
Wayne H. Bowen
Forthcoming Working for Nazi Germany: Salvador Merino and Spanish Labor in the Third Reich (Routledge, 2025).
Robert Cassanello
Crafting Constitutions in Florida, 1810–1968, ed. Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2025
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni
Earley-Spadoni, Tiffany. Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5876/9781646426843
Hakan Özoğlu
Cumhuriyet’in Kuruluş Savaşları. Istanbul: Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, 2023. Second edition 2025.