Assistant Professor
Phone: (239) 590-7173
E-Mail: mepple@fgcu.edu
Office: Library - 453

Assistant Professor, U.S. History
mepple@fgcu.edu

Ph.D., History, University of Akron, 2001
MLS, Library Science, Indiana University (Bloomington), 1984
M.A., History, Indiana University (Bloomington), 1984
B.A., History/Religion, Franklin College, 1982

Research and Teaching Interests

Early America, U.S. foreign relations, Cold War culture

Courses Offered

• AMH 2010      U.S. History to 1877
• AMH 2020      U.S. History since 1877
• AMH 3110      American Colonial History
• AMH 3130      American Revolution and Constitutional Era
• AMH 3141      U.S. History 1800-1860
• AMH 4550      U.S. Constitutional History
• AMH 4512      U.S. Diplomatic History
• AMH 4270      U.S. in the Cold War
• AMH 6278      U.S. in the Cold War
• AMH 6915      Research in American History
• AMH 6930      Seminar in American History
• HIS   5930     Teaching History at the College Level

Articles and Essays

• Michael Epple and Irvin D.S. Winsboro, "Religion, Culture, and the Cold War: Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and America's Anti-Communist Crusade of the 1950s," The Historian, Vol. 71, no. 2 (Summer 2009), pp. 209-233.

Conference Presentations

• "Missiles on the Lake: Cold War Hysteria in Cleveland," paper resented at the Florida Conference of Historians, Jacksonville, Florida, March 2008.
• “'Support the President and Buy Some Fruitcake': How South Florida Newspapers Reported on the Cuban Missile Crisis,” paper presented at the Florida Society of Historians, Naples, Florida, May 2006.
• “The Portrayal of the Soviet Union in Northeast Ohio Newspapers,” paper presented at the Florida Conference of Historians, Tampa, Florida, March 2005.
• “Saving America During the Great Depression: Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Campaigns Against Communism to Save America,” paper presented at the Florida Conference of Historians, Miami Beach, Florida, May 2006.
• “For God and Country:” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and the Cold War,” paper presented at the Florida Conference of Historians, Lakeland, Florida, March 2004.