Department Archives: History

Four UCF professors examined the COVID-19 pandemic and drew comparisons by exploring historical contexts of past epidemics in the United States on Friday.

John Roy Price, this year’s speaker for the Annual Pauley Lecture Series, will take a fresh look at Nixon’s social policies and the ongoing relevance of the arguments for and against them.

The program awarded a total of $1 million to 32 teams, several of which included CAH faculty members.

Eight faculty members with the College of Arts and Humanities were honored for their works, which ranged from novels to textbooks.

Africana Studies minor Dalaya McFadden was awarded the John T. Washington Scholarship Award and the John T. Washington Community Service Award.

Rhiannon O’Neil ‘21MA and James Stoddard ‘20MA were awarded for their master’s thesis and work as a graduate teaching associate, respectively.

Barbara Gannon, associate professor of military history, is on a quest to honor the Union soldiers who were killed in Florida’s largest Civil War battle.

Brandon Nightingale ’16 ’19MA, archivist at Bethune-Cookman University, discusses how his journey starting at UCF as an electrical engineering major has led him to now working to preserve Black history, and how slowing down to study the past is the best way to look forward.

Associate professor of history Amy Foster spoke with “The Galaxy Reporters” about Europe’s growing need for a crewed spaceship.

Housed in the UCF Department of History, PRINT provides access to historical correspondence between Anabaptists, Quakers and Pietists and allows users to create custom visualizations of the connections sparked by these letters.