Assistant Professor/History Program Leader
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

President, Florida Conference of Historians

Recent articles and conference presentations:

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

"Missiles on the Lake: Cold War Hysteria in Cleveland." Presented 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." Presented at the Florida Society of Historians, Naples, Florida, May 2006

"The Portrayal of the Soviet Union in Northeast Ohio Newspapers." 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." Presented at the Florida Conference of Historians, Miami Beach, Florida, May 2006

"For God and Country:" Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and the Cold War." Presented at the Florida Conference of Historians, Lakeland, Florida, March 2004