Murray State University History Department

Murray State University History Department History Department of Murray State University

All smiles as we wrap up Teacher Appreciation Week 📚🍎 Our senior history/social studies students Jocelyn Stark, Briah Co...
05/07/2026

All smiles as we wrap up Teacher Appreciation Week 📚🍎

Our senior history/social studies students Jocelyn Stark, Briah Cook, and Bryli Jones are ready to share their passion for history with future middle and high school students!

Briah Cook not only successfully completed her student teaching at Paducah Tilghman High School this semester, she also presented at a conference at the University of Kentucky last week and participated on a student teaching panel hosted by the MSU chapter of the Kentucky Education Association (KEA). Well done, Briah!

Briah's conference paper "The Moscow Art Theatre Tours America: Exploring the Impact of Konstantin Stanislavsky's Method on American Acting, 1923-24," was produced in Dr. Hilton HIS 400 course last semester.

Congratulations to all our amazing history seniors! Thanks for the memories!
See you at graduation!!! 🎓🥳

Today's featured History/Social Studies senior is Jocelyn Stark, who has spent the semester student teaching at Mayfield...
05/06/2026

Today's featured History/Social Studies senior is Jocelyn Stark, who has spent the semester student teaching at Mayfield High School!

Congratulations, Jocelyn! 🥳🎉🍎 Wishing you all the best!

Teacher Appreciation Week continues! Today's featured History/Social Studies senior is Bryli Jones, who has spent the se...
05/05/2026

Teacher Appreciation Week continues! Today's featured History/Social Studies senior is Bryli Jones, who has spent the semester student teaching at Graves County High School!

Congratulations, Bryli! 🥳🎉🍎 Wishing you all the best!

Finals week is teacher appreciation week! 🍎🎉📚🥳 Thank your educators!We want to highlight our history/social studies pre-...
05/04/2026

Finals week is teacher appreciation week! 🍎🎉📚🥳 Thank your educators!

We want to highlight our history/social studies pre-service teachers, starting with our juniors Cecilia Broxon, Emmi Knight, Seth Skebo, Taylor Smith, and Ella Zimmerman, who completed their first practicum at regional high schools and had a fantastic semester of growth with Dr. Koulisis in HIS 361!

Wishing them and all our students the best during finals!

This Wednesday the Murray State History Department hosted their End Of Year Celebration and Award Reception. Thank you t...
05/01/2026

This Wednesday the Murray State History Department hosted their End Of Year Celebration and Award Reception. Thank you to all of the students and professors for joining us to celebrate the completion of another great year! Big congratulations to Kate Wahnsiedler for winning the Outstanding Researcher award and Jack Worley for the Phi Alpha Theta Outstanding Volunteer Award!

Reminder to ALL history undergraduate and graduate students!!! Please join us TODAY at the Wrather Hall Mezzanine (on th...
04/29/2026

Reminder to ALL history undergraduate and graduate students!!! Please join us TODAY at the Wrather Hall Mezzanine (on the second floor of Wrather Museum) for the History Department Award Reception and Phi Alpha Theta Induction Ceremony for new members. Reception starts at 3:00pm and awards will begin at 4:00pm. We hope to see you there!

Last Friday Dr. Black, Dr. Horton, and Dr. Koulisis brought students in History, English, and Honors to Memphis to visit...
04/15/2026

Last Friday Dr. Black, Dr. Horton, and Dr. Koulisis brought students in History, English, and Honors to Memphis to visit both the Civil Rights Museum, which included a superb special exhibit on Bayard Rustin, and the Rock n Soul Museum.

We had a great time synthesizing classroom studies with museum exhibits, resulting in many conversations on twentieth century politics, culture, education, and social movements. We even had time for walking on Beale Street!

Though unable to travel with the group, big thanks to Dr. Osborne and Dominique Suiter for initiating, organizing, and logistics!

04/14/2026

Seniors presented the first capstone projects today! Congrats to Emma Alexander and Taylor Doerhoefer! StateHistory

Today was the first day of HIS 400 capstone papers. Emma Alexander and Taylor Doerhoefer presnted on their research rela...
04/14/2026

Today was the first day of HIS 400 capstone papers. Emma Alexander and Taylor Doerhoefer presnted on their research related to the social history of England.

This is the last installment of the Spring 2026 Calloway County Public Library Public History Lecture Series. Former Mur...
04/08/2026

This is the last installment of the Spring 2026 Calloway County Public Library Public History Lecture Series. Former Murray State University Senior Lecturer Ted Franklin Belue will present "Thumbprint of my Father, Frank Belue: Homefront War Letters of a Common Man, 1941-1943." In 2023 a UPS box left at Ted Franklin Belue's door revealed a precious time-capsule he never knew existed: his dad’s WWII letters, army and family pictures, and official documents. Inducted just days before Pearl Harbor but spared from duty abroad, Ted's father, Frank Belue, clerked at Forts Bragg and Mackalls’s hospitals and rose in rank to become a TEC4 Sergeant. For a poor Mississippi boy whose parents lost their family farm in the Depression, went bust in Texas, and came to Orlando, he did well. Part memoir, part cultural history, Belue's talk, as narrated by his father's letters, includes such topics as bloody N**i U-Boat warfare off North Carolina's coast; N**i POWs; pro vs. anti-war church of Christ debates and schisms; Ted's first-hand memories of Orlando’s segregated Black district; the birth of Daytona Beach's Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs); New York City’s sights/nightlife; army base recreation; spiritual conflicts; pop music of the day; and Belue's readapting to civilian life.

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6th Floor In Faculty Hall
Murray, KY
42071

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Monday 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
Friday 8am - 4:30pm

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