Welcome to the Department of History at Oklahoma State University. The twenty-one members of the History Faculty offer undergraduate and graduate courses that fulfill requirements for the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. Currently one hundred forty undergraduate students major in History and fifty-five graduate students are pursuing advanced degrees in the field. The Department is eager to offer guidance to students who hope to minor in History, to earn an undergraduate or graduate degree, or simply to learn more about the past and its effects on the present. Please use this site to acquaint yourself with the courses, faculty, student organizations, and activities of the History Department. Please contact us if you have questions or would like further information.

James E. Klein is Assistant Professor of History at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX.  He earned his doctorate from Oklahoma State University, Department of History, in 2003.  This book was a finalist in the non-fiction category for the 2009 Oklahoma Book Awards from the Oklahoma Center for the Book. A cultural and social history of liquor in early Oklahoma, Grappling with Demon Rum provides a fresh look at vice crusaders at the regional level.  In portraying this conflict between middle- and working-class definitions of social propriety, Klein provides new insight into forces at work throughout America during the Progressive Era. Congratulations, Jim! Grappling with Demon Rum: The Struggle Over Liquor in Early Oklahoma

Congratulations are also in order to James Cummings who graduated from our PhD program in Spring, 2003, for the publication of his new book, "Towards Modern Public Finance:  The American War with Mexico, 1846-1848."

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