- Graduate student Sarah Foss has accepted a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Latin American history at Oklahoma State University, starting Fall 2018.
- At the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting, Kaya Sahin joined two roundtables as discussant: Whose Renaissance: "Heritage," Scholarship, and the Politics of the Past Today (which he also co-organized); and Collaborative Research on the Global Renaissance.
- Steve Stowe's book Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women has been published by the University of North Carolina Press. https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469640969/keep-the-days/
- Carl Weinberg published an article on History News Network marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the lynching of Robert Paul Prager: https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168669. The article draws from his first book, Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I (2005).