Fall 2011
Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Amy Mitchell-Cook
 Dr. Amy Mitchell-Cook is the department's maritime historian. She brings to the department an interdisciplinary background with a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Florida ('90), an M.A. in Maritime Studies from East Carolina University ('94) and a Ph.D. in history from Penn State University ('05). Read More...
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A Letter to the Chair
"It seems like forever since I graduated from UWF, but it has been just over one year. In May, I finished my first year of law school at Mississippi College in Jackson, MS. Thanks to the fantastic history faculty at UWF, I was well-equipped to deal with the rigors of the first year and ended up in the top 20% of the class. I am very grateful for the emphasis the History Department, in particular, placed on the importance of developing good writing skills; that tremendously helped me. Because legal writing and historical writing are so similar, I was not forced to learn a new system, but drew on the skills I learned and honed while at UWF. I attribute much of my success at UWF to your kind encouragement."
Alexander J. Sullivan
BA History, BM Music Performance, UWF, 2010
Doctor of Jurisprudence Candidate, 2013 Mississippi College School of Law |
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DEPARTMENT of HISTORY FALL 2011 COURSE OFFERINGS. . .
 The French Revolution and Napoleon, EUH4991 – Dr. Derek Zumbro
The French Revolution and Napoleon course provides students with an extensive understanding of the origins, evolution and consequences of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Participants will understand why the Revolution occurred and the actions and goals of the major participants, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The second half of the semester will examine the life and campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte, why Britain and Russia prevailed against the Napoleonic Empire's might, and how Bonaparte eventually met his fate at Waterloo. http://uwf.edu/history/
 Alan Manning Offers Constitutional and Legal History Since 1877 This Fall
Alan Manning has practiced law for 25 years, is licensed to practice in Florida, Alabama, and California, and is currently a partner at the Pensacola law firm of Clark, Partington, Hart, Larry, Bond & Stackhouse. Alan also serves as a Faculty Associate in the Department of History at the University of West Florida, where he teaches courses in American history. He is an authority on American presidents and the presidency, and he frequently speaks and lectures to various groups and organizations on presidential history. http://uwf.edu/history/
 Sports in American Society, AMH4992 – Dr. John Clune
This course will explore how American Society, and the local Pensacola community, can be understood through its sports, sport teams, and sport heroes. Topics include the advent and evolution of spectator sports and national icons like Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson, and Jack Dempsey. This course also will examine the rise and commercialization of intercollegiate athletics, race and gender, gambling and corruption. Finally, Sports in American Society will delve into local sports history, which produced its own celebrities. http://uwf.edu/history/
 Medieval Women, EUH4614 – Dr. Marie Thérèse Champagne
Were women and men really that different long ago? Find out by reading the words that women themselves wrote from the third through the fifteenth centuries. Hear the thoughts of an early Christian martyr, Perpetua, in the early third century, as she faces certain suffering and death in the arena. Read about the joys and heartbreaks of a Frankish noblewomen, Dhuoda, in the ninth century, as she learns to accept the loss of her children and the burden of her responsibilities. All students will find these case studies to be fascinating windows into a time very different from our modern world, but also very similar. http://uwf.edu/history/
GULF SOUTH CONFERENCE FEATURES SPECIAL THEMED SESSIONS ON SLAVERY, SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR IN THE GULF SOUTH
 The Gulf South History and Humanities Conference is an annual event sponsored by the Gulf South Historical Association, a consortium of Gulf South colleges and universities from the states of Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. View Additional Information and Register Online. Marie Thérèse Champagne, Medieval History, is organizing the annual meeting of the Louisiana Consortium of Medieval and Renaissance Scholars in Pensacola this fall, in conjunction with the Gulf South History and Humanities Conference. Read More...
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The Department of History welcomes Dr. Matthew Pursell. Most recently an Assistant Professor of History and the Director of American Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University, Dr. Pursell received his Ph.D. from the department of American Civilization at Brown University in 2005 and his M.A. in history from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1991. At Illinois Wesleyan, Pursell taught courses on Atlantic revolutions, the social and cultural history of British North America, slavery and servitude, and comparative race relations in the Americas. 
UWF history graduate Bill Clifton currently serves as the wing historian for the 80th Flying Training Wing at Sheppard Air Force Base, TX. The 80th Flying Training Wing, which hosts the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program, is comprised of seven squadrons made up of both US personnel and personnel from several NATO partner nations. These squadrons train hundreds of pilots from participating nations each year for the NATO alliance. Bill writes historical reports tracking wing operations and maintains heritage displays and artifacts.