Department News

Online Fall 2013 Class Just Added!

HIS3313-2866--Issues in Gender and Diversity with Dr. Marie Therese Champagne

This six-week, special topics course explores the topics of gender and diversity through the study of two major issues: the history of attitudes and beliefs regarding the inherent nature and value of unborn human life, and the history of anti-semitism, which is the belief in the inherent inferiority and evil of Jews. These two issues will be the two focal points for this course as you study aspects of gender and diversity at different points in Western civilization.

Peace Corps Presentation

The Peace Corps recruiter for the University of West Florida, Emily Webster, was on campus Monday, November 5 to speak about international opportunities. History, Philosophy, English, and Government students attended Ms. Webster’s presentation, which included a brief introduction to the Peace Corps, including the life of a Peace Corps volunteer and the benefits associated with the service.

Alumnus Spotlight: Brett S. Janos

Brett S. Janos graduated from the University of West Florida in 2005 with a B.A. in History. While at UWF, he was an Ambassador and active in the Student Government Association and the Honors Program. Brett also received the History Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award in 2004 at UWF. He later pursued his historical interest at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his M.A. in History in 2007 after completing his Master’s Thesis titled “Pope Innocent III – A Great Too Late.” He also received a J.D. from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Michigan in 2010. While in law school, Brett served as the Senior Research Editor of the school’s Law Journal and participated in the Student Bar Association. He is currently barred in his home state of New Mexico, where he recently opened up his own immigration law firm, Janos & Zavala, L.C., in Albuquerque.

History Conference Opportunities

Several conferences will be held over the coming months in our region of the country (one in Pensacola), and are devoted to History in general or a special area. All History majors should consider attending one of these conferences to see what professional historians do, and how they share ideas and information within their profession. They usually offer a registration fee for students that is much lower than for other categories. See the following document for a list of conferences and links to their websites.

Upcoming History Conferences 2012-13

New Spring Graduate Course!

Carter Quina of Quina Grundhoefer Architects is offering a spring graduate course called Methods of Historic Preservation II (HIS5990). This course will continue to introduce students to the fundamentals of preservation technology and conservation standards, philosophy, and ethics using Historic Pensacola Village and other historic structures as a laboratory for practice.

Carter Quina, AIA, LEED AP, has practiced architecture as a principal in Pensacola, Florida, since 1984. Prior to that time, he spent five years in the New York area honing his skills and expanding his knowledge of historic preservation and adaptive reuse.

History Publications

America's Hundred Years' War: U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763-1858
by W. Stephen Belko

Historic Pensacola (Colonial Towns/Cities of the Atlantic)
by John James Clune Jr.

Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution
by Matthew Clavin

Cuban Convents in the Age of Enlightened Reform, 1761 - 1807
by John James Clune Jr.

Mule South to Tractor South: Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South
by George B. Ellenberg

Battle for the Ruhr The German Army's Final Defeat in the West
by Derek Zumbro

The Invincible Duff Green Whig of the West
by W. Stephen Belko

In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front
by Derek Zumbro

Forging Political Compromise: Antonin Svehla and the Czechoslovak Republican Party, 1918-1933
by Daniel Miller