

Ryan Floyd
- Professor of History and Chair, Department of History & Philosophy
- Social Studies Secondary Education Coordinator, Department of History & Philosophy
- Faculty, College of Behavioral & Social Sciences
Ph.D., University of Alabama (2010)
B.S., Samford University (1998)
BOOKS
- Floyd, R. and Downs, M. eds., The American South and the Great War, 1914-1924. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. (Fall 2018)
- Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and the Coming of the Great War, August 1914-December 1915. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (2013)
ARTICLES - REFEREED
- Floyd, R. & Floyd, H. Modernity and Anniston's Transformation From Model City to Toxic Town. The Alabama Review. (2016)
- Looking Over the Horizon: The Birmingham Iron and Coal Industry's Interest in U.S. Expansionism during the 1890s in The Alabama Review. (2010)
PROCEEDINGS - Not Refereed (Full Paper)
- Teaching History in the Electronic Era: Strategies for Connecting With Millennial Generation Learners in South Carolina Historical Association Annual Meeting. (2015)
CHAPTERS, CASES, READINGS, SUPPLEMENTS
- American Neutrality: Interpretation and Application: 1776 – 1941. Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present. Charles Scribner's Sons. (2016)
- America and the Great War. US History: 1877 to the Present. Milestone Documents. (2013: 8)
- The Great War. World History: 1600 to the Present. Milestone Documents. (2013: 6)
PRESENTATIONS
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An Opportunity for Change: The Southern Homefront During the First World War. Keynote Address at Georgia Association of Historians, Columbus, Georgia. (2019)
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The First World War and the American South. World War I Symposium: South Carolina and the First World War, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina. (2019)
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The South's Economy and WWI. Time of Transition and Tradition: Symposium on the South and World War I, Greenwood, South Carolina. (2019)
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Southern Agriculture and WWI. Time of Transition and Tradition: Symposium on the South and World War I, Greenwood, South Carolina. (2019)
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US Military, Foreign Policy and WWI. Time of Transition and Tradition: Symposium on the South and World War I, Greenwood, South Carolina. (2019)
- "A Diarrhea of Plans and Constipation of Action": The Influence of Alabama Cotton Farmers, Merchants and Brokers on Anglo-American Diplomacy during the First World War, 1914-1915. Alabama Historical Association. Mobile, Alabama. (April, 2015)
- Images that Define America. South Carolina Historical Association Annual Meeting. Columbia, South Carolina. (March, 2014)
- Helping Our Students Survive Their First College Classroom Experience. Lander University Faculty Expo. Greenwood, South Carolina. (2014)
- A Lesson in Good Will: Woodrow Wilson and the failure of Missionary Diplomacy Teaching American History in the Lakelands. Greenwood, South Carolina. (November, 2013)
- Large Classes: Incorporating Discussion & Group Exercises to Lecture-Hall Classes. Lander University Faculty Expo. Greenwood, South Carolina. (2013)
- Triad Short Answers in How to Implement Assessment in the Classroom Session II. Lander University Faculty Expo. Greenwood, South Carolina. (2012)
- Historical Precedent and Woodrow Wilson's Neutrality Policy in 1914- 1915. South Carolina Historical Association. Columbia, South Carolina. (2012)
- Alabama's Path to Modernity: Reconsidering the New South Perspective on Global and Regional Industrial Expansion. Alabama Historical Association. Livingston, Alabama. (2009)
- Rejection of Benevolence: Woodrow Wilson and Grassroots Diplomacy during the 1914 U.S. Occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Southwest Social Science Association. New Orleans, Louisiana. (2005)
RADIO AND INTERNET INTERVIEWS
- How Did Most Americans Feel About Entering World War I? South Carolina ETV. https://www.knowitall.org/video/how-did-most-americans-feel-about-entering-world-war-i-dr-ryan-floyd (2019)
- Historians Observe Centennial of World War I's End South Carolina Public Radio, http://www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/post/historians-observe-centennial-world-war-end. (2018)