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Congratulations to our 2024 History BA, BS, MA and Public History PhD graduates! We wish you the best in all your future endeavors.

Public History MA student, Sawyer Castleberry-Backman, is turning her love of history and the outdoors into a full-time career. history.chass.ncsu.edu/2024/12/04/in-…

Professor Jordan Rogers recently did a Q&A regarding his recent edited volume, Working Lives in Ancient Rome. It's just been posted today on the NCSU research news blog, The Abstract. news.ncsu.edu/2024/12/work...

We honored Dr. Nancy Mitchell who is retiring after thirty years with a reception. Faculty, students and even Dr. Mitchell's former advisor were on hand to celebrate her.

Our grad students attended a cemetery clean up and restoration workshop with Verville Preservation on Saturday, November 2nd at Oakwood Cemetery. Michael Verville is a current PhD student in the Public History program.

Congratulations to Dr. Craig Friend (@professordeath)! He has a new book available for pre-order: Friend, Craig Thompson. Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas. The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.

Congratulations to Dr. Steve Lechner! His article, "A Swann's Song: The NFL's War on Violence and a Concussion Crisis Averted in the 1970s" has just been published in the Journal of Sports History. muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article…

Public History MA student, Emma Donnelly, curated an exhibit on North Carolina's Environmental Justice Movement. history.chass.ncsu.edu/2024/10/31/pub…

Congratulations to @TatePaulette1 whose article "The Fermented Crescent", was just published in Aeon and "The Land of Ninkasi: Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia" was published in Ancient History 51. aeon.co/essays/mesopot…

Congratulations to Petros Apostolopoulos, who graduated from our doctoral program in 2022. He has published his first monograph, Producing and Debating History: Historical Knowledge on Wikipedia, which is based on his dissertation. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Check out what our Public History MA alum, Kelly Arnold, has been up to since she graduated in 2023. history.chass.ncsu.edu/2024/10/16/mee…

Check out the latest History Department News! history.chass.ncsu.edu/2024/10/09/the…

Congrats to @TammySGordon on her journal article in The International Journal of the History of Sport: “‘Aikido Practitioners in Every Country Should Change and Unite with the Tradition’: Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Historical Memory, and the Internationalization of Aikido, 1948–1984.”

Dr. Nancy Mitchell discusses the life and legacy of Jimmy Carter on WUNC's Due South. wunc.org/show/due-south…

Our students are collecting relief supplies for those affected by the Hurricane in Western North Carolina. Boxes for physical donations will be on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors of Withers Hall.

We hope you can make it to our Ashes to Ashes Symposium Friday, Oct. 4 from 9-4 in Withers 140. Dr. Ellen Stroud is presenting the lecture, "Bodies at Rest?: Unearthing the American Dead."

Dr Tate Paulette ( @TatePaulette1) had a great turnout at D.H. Hill's Fishbowl Forum where he discussed his new book, "In the Land of Ninkasi, A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia."

Our History club toured the Bell tower yesterday. Is that Chancellor Woodson or a new undergrad? #ncstatehistoryclub

Students, did you know you can apply for travel awards? Tanmai Vemulapalli did and she was awarded funding to present a poster at an International Conference in Luxembourg. history.chass.ncsu.edu/2024/09/16/pub…

Dr. Tate Paulette was interviewed on the podcast and radio show Good Food. It aired this past Saturday on KCRW in LA. kcrw.com/culture/shows/…