Dr. William Oldson Retired

Dr. William Oldson has officially retired as founder and Director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience after

fourteen years.  Since 1997, when the Institute was established, he has successfully overseen the saving and preservation of over 6,500 collections on WWII.  Professor Oldson said he will dearly miss seeing the new collections as they come in as well as miss talking with the veterans and their families when they bring in their donations of World War II memorabilia.

This means also he has retired from the History Department at Florida State University after 42 years of teaching.  His area of specialty was in Anti-Semitism/The Holocaust, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Eastern Europe, especially Romania and Russia.  He has written several books:

• ·The Historical and Nationalistic Thought of Nicolae Iorga, (Boulder & New York: East European Monographs, Columbia University Press, 1973).
• ·A Providential Anti-Semitism, Nationalism and Polity in Nineteenth Century Romania, (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1991).
• ·The Politics of Rite: Jesuit, Uniate, and Romanian Ethnicity in 18th C. Transylvania (Boulder & New York: East European Monographs, Columbia University Press, 2005,).
• ·Hello Honey:  World War II Letters of An American “Everyman”  Captain Joseph Upchurch, (Tallahassee, FL:  Sentry Press, 2010).

He will be dearly missed and we wish him well in his retirement.