Our department includes over 40 faculty members,
400 History majors, and more than 100 M.A. and Ph.D. students. We
train executives, lawyers, politicians, educators, preservationists, and tomorrow's
historians. Rich regional resources and acclaimed research centers ensure Temple a
prominent voice in global conversations about the past.
 Beth Bailey’s America’s Army is the story of the all-volunteer force, from the draft protests and policy proposals of the 1960s through the Iraq War. It is also a history of America in the post-Vietnam era.
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 Bryant Simon’s Everything but the Coffee casts a fresh eye on the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America.
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 William Hitchcock’s book explores the civilian experience of liberation at the close of World War II. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2009 George Louis Beer Prize from the AHA.
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 Susan Klepp’s new book asks: In the Age of Revolution, how did American women conceive their lives and marital obligations? Klepp demonstrates that many women--rural and urban, free and enslaved--began to radically redefine motherhood.
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