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Recent Reading

Below is a list of recent professional reading from assigned course readings, research, etc.

        Author                                                                                    Title

Balogh, Brian                 The Associational State: American Governance in the Twentieth Century (2015)
Jacobs, Novak eds.         The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (2003)
Novak, William               “Myth of the Weak American State,” AHR, 113, n 3 (Jun. 2008): 752-772
Novak                             “The American Law of Association: The Legal-Political Construction of American Civil Society,” Studies in American Political Development, (2001)
Novak Pincus                  “Political History after the Cultural Turn,” Perspectives on History (2011)
Clemens, Elisabeth          "Lineages of the Rube Goldberg State: Building and Blurring Public Programs, 1900-1940." In Rethinking Political Institutions (2006)
Bristow, Nancy.              American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic (2012)
Sparrow, James T.          Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (2013)
Sugrue, Thomas,            Origins of the Urban Crisis (1996)
Kruse, Kevin.                  White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005)
Goluboff, Risa L.,            The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (2010)
Canaday, Margot,           The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2009)
Stockhausen, Elisabeth  The Strangers in Our Midst: American Evangelicals and Immigration from the Cold War to the 21st Century (2021)
Gerber, David A.            American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
Gabaccia, Donna            Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective (2012)
Jacobson, Matthew Frye Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000)
Haney-Lopez, Ian.         White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (1996/2006)
Ngai, Mae                      Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. (2004)
Porter, Stephen R.          Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed (2017)
Jacobson, Matthew Frye Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (2008)
Hsu, Madeline Y.           The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril became the Model Minority (2015)

Renan, Ernest                “What is a Nation?” (1882)
Hobsbawm, Eric.           Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (1990)
Anderson, Benedict       Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983)
Chatterjee, Ch 1            The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (1993)
Duara, Intro & Ch 1        Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China (1995)
Hunt Lynn                      Writing History in the Global Era. (2014)
Lindsay                         “The Appeal of Transnational History” Perspectives on History: The News Magazine of the American Historical Association (2012)
Ngai                              “Promises and Perils of Transnational History” Perspectives on History: The News Magazine of the American Historical Association (2012
Pomeranz, Kenneth       “Histories for a Less National Age,” AHR (2014) AHA. Presidential Address
Manela                          “The United States in the World,” in Foner & McGirr, American History Now (2011)
Bender                           A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (2006)
Eckhardt Fuchs, Vers     The Transnational in the History of Education: Concepts and Perspectives (2019)
Akira Iriye                     Global and Transnational History: The Past, Present, and Future (2013)

Williams, William           Empire as a Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America’s Present Predicament Along with a Few Thoughts about an Alternative (1980)
Immerwahr, Daniel        How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. (2019)
Bacevich, Andrew           American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy (2002)
Leffler, Melvyn               The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953. (1994)
Schmitz, David F.           Thank God They’re on Our Side: The United States & Right Wing Dictatorships, 1921-1965. (1999)
Dower, John.                  Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1999)
Ninkovich, Frank           The Global Republic: America’s Inadvertent Rise to World Power. University of Chicago Press (2015)
Gaddis, John Lewis        We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1998)
Westad, Odd Arne         The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. (2005)
Iriye, Akira                    Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World. (2004)
Manela, Erez                  The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (2009)
Capozzola, Christopher Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century (2020)
Renda, Mary A.              Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism,  1915–1940 (2001)
Rogers, Daniel               Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. (2000)
Enstad, Nan                   Cigarettes  Inc: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (2018)
Olsson, Tore C.              Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the U.S. and Mexican Countryside (2017)
Hitchock, William, I.       The Bitter Road to Freedom: the Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II 
Suri, Jeremi                    Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente. (2003)
Cochran, Molly, Navari   Progressivism and US Foreign Policy Between the World Wars (2017)
McDougall, Walter          The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest (2016)
Tyrrell, Ian                     Reforming the World: The Creation of America’s Moral Empire (2010)
Irwin, Julia F.                  Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening (2013)
Borgwardt, Elizabeth      A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights (2005)
Glendon, Mary Anne       A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Human Rights Declaration
Von Eschen, Penny         Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-57 (1997)
Anderson, Carol             Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-55 (2003)
Dudziak, Mary                Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2000)
Snyder, Sarah                 Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (2012)
Moyn, Samuel                The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History  (2010)
Bradley, Mark P.             The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (2016)
Mcgerr, Michael             A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920   

Addams, Jane                Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)
Wade, Richard C.           The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities 1790-1830 (1959)
Miller, Zane                   Boss Cox's Cincinnati: Urban Politics in the Progressive Era (1968)
Warner, Sam Bass          Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston 1870-1900 (1978)
Nash, Gary                    The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution (1979)
Taylor, Henry Louis       The Building of Black Industrial Suburb: The Lincoln Heights Ohio Story (1979)
Barth, Gunther               City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth Century America (1980)
Goldfield, David R.         Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607-1980. (1982)
Stilgoe, John R.              Common Landscape of America 1580-1845 (1982)
Dollin, Jay                      Immigrant Church, The: New York's Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865. (1983)
Wilentz, Sean                 Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working class. (1984)
Mohl, Raymond A.         The New City: Urban America in the Industrial Age (1985)
Peiss, Kathy                   Cheap Amusement: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. (1986)
Jackson, Kenneth T.       Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. (1987)
Fairbanks, Robert B.       Making Better Citizens: Housing Reform and the Community Development Strategy in Cincinnati, 1820-1970 (1988)
Mohl, Raymond A. (ed)   The Making of Urban America (1988)
Schultz, Stanley K.         Constructing Urban Culture: American Cities and City Planning, 1800-1920. (1989)
Vitz, Robert C.               The Queen and the Arts: Cultural Life in Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati (1989)
Cohen, Lizabeth            Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1990)
Mahoney, Timothy R.     River Towns in the Great West: The Structure of Provincial Urbanization in the American Midwest 1820-1870 (1990)
Plunz, Richard                A History of Housing in New York (1990)
Cronon, William             Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1992)
Reps, John                     The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States (1992)
Shapiro, Henry D. (ed)    Ethnic Diversity and Civic Identity: Patterns of Conflict and Cohesion in Cincinnati Since 1820 (1992)
Taylor, Henry Louis (ed) Race and the City: Work, Community and Protest in Cincinnati 1820-1970. (1993)
Teaford, Jon C               Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest (1994)
Foy, Jessica, Schlereth   American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services (1994)
Chauncey, George         Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1995)
McShane, Clay               Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City (1997)
Hayden, Dolores            The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. (1997)
Hise, Greg                     Magnetic L.A.: Planning the Twentieth Century Metropolis (1997)
Hamer, David                History in Urban Places: The Historic Districts of the United States (1998)
Ladd, Brian                    Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (1998)
Miller, Zane                   Changing Plans for America's Inner Cities: Cincinnati's Over the Rhine and 20th Century Urbanism (1998)
Ryan, Mary                    Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century (1998)
Page, Max                     The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (1999)
Bauman, John, Biles       From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America (2000)
Deutsch, Sarah              Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston (2000)
Newman, Katherine S.    No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City (2000)
Fogelson, Robert           Downton It’s Rise and Fall  (2001)
McShane, Clay, Tarr      The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century (2001)
Miller, Zane                   Visions of Place: The City, Neighborhoods, Suburbs and Cincinnati’s Clifton, 1850-2000 (2001)
Hayden, Dolores            Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth 1820-2000 (2003)
Ross, Steven J.               Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati 1788-1890 (2003)
Fogelson, Robert M.      Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930 (2005)
Isenberg Alison             Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It (2005)
Kruse, Kevin M.             White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005)
Lepore, Jill                     New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (2005)
Sugrue, Thomas            The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. (2005)
Taylor, Nikki M.             Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati’s Black Community 1802-1868 (2005)
Kellman, Arie                 A River and It’s City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (2006)
Smith, Carl S.                 The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (2006)
Teaford, Jon C.               The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America (2006)
Martin V. Melosi             The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (2008)
May, Elaine Tyler            Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (2008)
Kingle, Matthew             Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (2009)
Nystrom, Justin A.          New Orleans After the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom (2010)
Nightingale, Carl H.       Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities (2012)
Devore, Donald E.          Defying Jim Crow: African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960 (2015)
Slap, Andrew Towers     Confederate Cities: the Urban South During the Civil War Era (2015)
Ryan, Mary                    Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America
Feinstein Amy D.           Modern Mobility Aloft Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America (2020)
Moga Steven                  Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning (2020)

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.  The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (2005)
Friedel, Robert               A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium (2003)
Gimpel, Jean                  The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages (1976)
Hall, Bert S                     Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics  (2001) 
Huff, Toby                     The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West (2003)
Huff, TobyI                    Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective (2010)  
Johns, Adrian                The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (2000)
Kuhn, Thomas               The Structure of Scientific Revolutions  (1964)
Mayr, Otto                     Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe (1989)  
Mokyr, Joel                    The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress (1992)
Sawday, Jonathan           Engines of the Imagination: Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine (2007) 
Shapin, Steven               The Scientific Revolution. University of Chicago Press (1998)
Usher, A.P                      A History of Mechanical Inventions (1954)
White Jr., Lynn               Medieval Technology and Social Change (1980) 
Adams, Sean Patrick      Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics and Economy in Antebellum America (2009)
Army Jr., Thomas F.       Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War (2018)
Chandler, Jr. Alfred D.   The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977)
John E. Clark Jr.             Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat (2004)
Hounshell, David           From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (1985)
Thomas P. Hughes         American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm (1990)  
Kasson, John F              Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900 (1999)
Limerick Patricia Nelson The Legacy of Conquest (1987)
Malone, Patrick M.         The Skulking Way of War, Technology and Tactics Among New England Indians (1991)
Marx Leo                       The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (1964)
Meyer, David R.             Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America (2006)
Oldenziel, Ruth             Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945 (2004)
Pursell, Carroll              The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology (1996)
Roberts, William H.        Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization (2007)
Cowan Ruth Schwartz    A Social History of American Technology (1997)
Sheriff, Carol                 The Artificial River: The Eire Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1807-1862 (1997)
Smith, Merritt                Roe Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenges of Change (1980)
Abbate, Janet                 Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology (2000)
Barry, Kathleen M.          Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants (2007)
Douglas, Susan J.           Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination (2004)
Fitzgerald, Deborah       Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture (2010)
Kleinman, Daniel            Politics on the Endless Frontier: Postwar Research in the U.S. (1995)
McBride, David               Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America’s African World (2002)
McCurdy, Howard          Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program (1994)
Meikle, Jeffrey L.            American Plastic: A Cultural History (1997)
Nye, David                     American Technological Sublime (1996)
Seiler, Cotton                Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America (2008)
Tobey Ronald C.            Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home (1997)
Van Vleck, Jenifer          Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy (2013)
Hughes,  Thomas P       Human Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (2005)
Smith, Merritt Roe         Does Technology Drive History? (1994)
Basalla, George             The Evolution of Technology 1(989)

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Allan Greer & Kenneth Mills

Armitage, David

Bain, Ken

Ballard, Frederick

Barrett, Paul

Bednarik, Janet

Bednarik, Janet

Bednarik, Janet

Bednarik, Janet and Michael

Berg, A. Scott

Bogue, E. Grady

Bonomi, Patricia U.

Booth, Alan

Booth, Alan

Brooks, David

Candacy, Taylor

Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge

Chaplin, Joyce

Corn, Joseph

Cronin, William

Dickens, Charles

Dixon, Bradley

Edson, Margaret

Fish, Stanley

Fuchs, Barbara

Fuentes, Marisa

Games, Alison

Glassburn, Ashley

Greene, Jack P

Greer, Allan

Grew, Raymond

Hart, Phillip

Hofer, Barbara K.

Jack P. Greene and Philip Morgan, eds.

Jakeman, Robert J.

Jeffrey Ostler & Nancy Shoemaker

Kelley, Robin D.G.

Kern, Kevin; Wilson, Gregory

Kolchin, Peter

Kopelson, Heather Miyano

Kupperman, Karen Ordahl

Light, Richard J.

Lonetree, Amy

McCullough, David

McCullough, David

McKeachie, Wilbert J.

O’Brien, Judith Grunert

Palmer, Parker

Parker, Geoffrey

Pearsall, Sarah

Pisano, Dominick, ed.

Pisano, Dominick

Powell, William J.

Pulsipher, Jenny Hale

Roche, Mark W.

Romney, Susanah Shaw

Rushforth, Brett

Scott, Julius S.

Seeman, Erik R.

Sindre Bangstad, øjberg

Sorin, Gretchen

Sparks, Randy J.

Stradling, David

Stradling, David

Tolstoy, Leo

Weber, Max

Wheat, David

Wineburg, Sam

Wineburg, Sam

Zalar, Jeff

Zalar, Jeff

                                                                                 Title

“The Catholic Atlantic”

“Three Concepts of Atlantic History”

 What the Best College Teachers Do

“Federal Regulation of Aviation”

"Cities and Their Airports"

“The Flying Machine in the Garden: Parks and Airports, 1918-1939”

“Layer Upon Layer: Public Authorities and Airport Ownership and Management in St. Louis, 1947-1980”

“City Planning and Municipal Airports, 1927-1940”

Dreams of Flight)

Lindbergh

“An Agenda of Common Caring: The Call for Community in Higher Education”

‘Swarms of Negroes Comeing about My Door’: Black Christianity in Early Dutch and English North America”

“Creating a Context for Learning,” in Teaching History at University: Enhancing Learning and Understanding

“Strategies for Active Learning in the History Classroom” in Teaching History at University: Enhancing Learning and Understanding

“The Summoned Self,” in The Road to Character

Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

“The Devil in the New World”

“Race”

The Winged Gospel: America’s Romance with Aviation

“A Place for Stories: Nature, History and Narrative”

Hard Times (selected)

 “‘As the Spaniards Always Have Done’: The Legacy of Florida’s Missions for Carolina Indian Relations and the Origins of the Yamasee War”

W;t

Save the World on Your Own Time

 “Religion and National Distinction in the Early Modern Atlantic,”

 Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

“Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities”

“Settler Standpoints”

“Colonial History and a National History: Reflections on Continuing Problem”

“Settler Colonialism and Empire in Early America”

“The Comparative Weakness of American History”

Flying Free: America’s First Black Aviators

“Motivation in the College Classroom” Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers

Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal

"America’s Black Air Pioneers, 1900-1939"

“Settler Colonialism in Early American History: An Introduction”

“How the West was One: The African Diaspora and the Re-Mapping of U.S. History

Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State

“Comparing American History”

Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic

 “International at the Creation: Early Modern American History”

"Courses that Emphasize Writing”

“A Heritage of Resistance: Ho-Chunk Family Photographs in the Visual Archive”

The Pioneers

The Wright Brothers

 “How to Make Lectures More Effective,”Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers

“Focus on Learning” in The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach

 “A Culture of Fear: Education and the Disconnected Life,” The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life

Ohio and the World: 1753-2053 (Selected)

“Gender”

The Airplane in American Culture

American Airport Designs

Black Wings

Swindler Sachem: The American Indian who sold his Birthright, Dropped out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England

“Should Faculty Teach Virtues and Values? That is the Wrong Question”

“Settler Colonial Prehistories in Seventeenth-Century North America”

Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France

The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“Jews in the Early Modern Atlantic”

“The double consciousness of Paul Gilroy”

Driving While Black

Where the Negroes are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade

“Dirty Work and Clean Air: Locomotive Firemen, Environment Activities, And Story of Conflict”

“Perceptions of Burning River: Deindustrialization and Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River”

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

 “Science as a Vocation”

Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640

Why Learn History (When It’s Already On Your Phone)

Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts

“Lecture as a Fillip to Contemplative Practice”

“Common Undergraduate Writing Problems”

                   

Anderson, Benedict

Anderson, Carol

Army, Jr, Thomas F.

Balogh Brian

Beckert, Sven

Bederman, Gail

Bender, Thomas

Bill O’Neil

Bloch, Marc

Boorstin, Daniel

Braudel, Fernand

Burke, Peter

Campos, Isaac

Canaday, Margot

Canny, Nicholas

Chaterjee, Partha

Chauncey, George

Chernow, Ron

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz

Cronon, William

Cronon, William

Davis, Natalie Zemon

de Grazia, Victoria

Duara, Prasenjit

Ed. Hendrix and Karant-Nunn

Fields, Barbara

Fink, Leon

Gabaccia, Donna

Ginzburg, Carlo

Gold & Klein, eds.

Gordon, Bruce

Grandin, Greg

Haney-Lopez, Ian

Harrington, Joel

Harrington, Joel

Haude, Sigrun

Haude, Sigrun

Haude, Sigrun

Haude, Sigrun

Hodes, Martha

Holt, Mack P.

Holt, Thomas

Holt, Thomas C.

Hounshell, David A

Hughes, Thomas

Hunt, Lynn

Johnson, Walter

Johnson, Walter

Jütte, Robert

Kessler-Harris, Alice

Kilmeade, Brian

Koslofsky, Craig

Leonard, Amy

Lepore, Jill

Lerner, Gerda

Limerick, Patricia Nelson

Lindsay, Lisa

Malone, Patrick M.

Manela, Erez

Manela, Erez

Marx, Leo

Mary Fulbrook and Ulinka Rublack

Melvin & Sellers-Garcia, eds.

Metaxas, Eric

Meyer, David R.

Ngai, Mae

Noll, Mark

Novak & Novak

Novak, William

Novak, William

Oberman, Heiko

Osler, Margaret J.

Pettegree, Andrew

Pettegree, Andrew

Porter, Stephen

Pursell, Carroll.

R.Po-chia Hsia & Hartmut Lehmann

Redmond, Samuel

Robisheaux, Thomas

Robisheaux, Thomas

Rodgers, Daniel T.

Roper, Lyndal

Roper, Lyndal

Said, Edward

Scott, Joan

Sewell, William

Sheriff, Carol.

Smith, Merritt Roe

Stanley, Amy-Dru

Te Brake, Wayne

E.P. Thompson

Tilly, Charles

Walker, Garthine

Williams, Gerhild Scholz

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Barry, Kathleen   
Cohen, Lizabeth     
Crowie, Jefferson R.  
Dower, John     
Dudziak, Mary     
Ferguson, Nail  
Fixico, Donald  
Hales, Peter Bacon   

Herman, Arthur     
Jackson, Kenneth T. 
Kilmeade and Yeager    
May, Elain Tyler   
Nelson, Christopher   
Noll, Mark
Novick, Peter     
Ortberg, John   
Rodgers, Daniel T.     
Sugden, John     
Tombs, Robert 

                                                                       

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism Intro Ch3

“A ‘Hollow Mockery’: African Americans, White Supremacy, and the Development of Human Rights in the United States”

Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War

The Associational State: American Governance in the Twentieth Century Intro

Empire of Cotton: A Global History Intro & Ch9

Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 Ch1

A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History Intro & Ch 6

The Great Book of Ohio: The Crazy History of Ohio with Amazing Random Facts and Trivia (A)

The Historian’s Craft

The Genius of American Politics

The Structures of Everyday Life (S)

Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (S)

Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs Ch4

The Straight State Intro Ch4&6

“Atlantic History: What and Why?,”

The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories Ch1

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 Acknowledgments, Intro, & Ch1

Alexander Hamilton (A)

A Social History of American Technology

AHA Presidential Address: William Cronon, “Storytelling,”

“The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

Society and Culture in Early Modern France

Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe

Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China

Masculinity in the Reformation Era (P)

“Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America”

“American Labor History”

Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective Intro

The Cheese and the Worms. The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Debates in the Digital Humanities

Calvin

in Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Intro & Part I & Ch1-3

“White Lines” in White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race

Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany

The Unwanted Child. The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany

“Anabaptism”

“War – A Fortuitous Occasion for Social Disciplining and Political Centralization? The Case of Bavaria under Maximilian I”

“Gender Roles and Perspectives Among Anabaptist and Spiritualist Groups”

“The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648): Moving Bodies – Transforming Lives –Shifting Knowledge"

White Women, Black Men Ch1&2

The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629

“Marking: Race, Race-Making, and the Writing of History”

Black over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction Intro/Ch1

From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States

American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm (P)

Writing History in the Global Era

“Looking Back at Social History”

“On Agency

Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe

“Social History”

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History (A)

Evening's Empire. A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe

Nails in the Wall. Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany

Historians Who Love Too Much: Reflections on Microhistory and Biography

“Placing Women in History: Definitions and Challenges”

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (A)

“The Appeal of Transnational History”

The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics Among the New England Indians

“The United States in the World”

“Imagining Woodrow Wilson in Asia: Dreams of East-West Harmony and the Revolt against Empire”

The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (P)

“In Relation: The ‘Social Self’and Ego-Documents,”

Imagining Colonial Latin America: Synoptic Methods and Practices Int, Ch1,5,11

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (A)

Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America

“Promises and Perils of Transnational History”

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

“Political History after the Cultural Turn”

“Myth of the Weak American State”

“The Legal Transformation of Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America”

Luther: Man between God and the Devil (P)

Rethinking the Scientific Revolution

Brand Luther (P)

Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion

Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed Intro Ch 1&4

The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology

In and out of the ghetto: Jewish-gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany

Historical Research in Archives: A Practical Guide

“The World of the Village”

The Last Witch of Langenburg

“An Age of Social Politics”

Martin Luther (A)

Witch Craze

Orientalism Intro Ch1

“Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”

“The Concept(s) of Culture,” in Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing after the Linguistic Turn

The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862

Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation  Ch5-6

Shaping History

The Making of the English Working Class (A)

“The Old New Social History and the New Old Social History”

Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England

Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel: Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690

     

Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
Staying Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
Empire
The Urban Indian Experience in America
Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
The C.R. Patterson and Sons Company
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (Audio)
That Noble Dream: The Question of Objectivity in the American Historical Profession
I’d Like You More If You Were More Like Me
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
Tecumseh: A Life 
The English and Their History

Khazeni, Arash

Aslanian, Sebouh

Snyder, Christina

Richter, Daniel

Gruen, Erich

Harris, Frank Raymond

Fancy, Hussein

Scott, James

Coy, Jason

Glatthaar &  Martin

Jasonoff, Maya

di Cosmo, Nicola

Stokes, Phillip

Goffart, Walter

Johnson, Walter

Tribes & Empire in the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran

From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa

Great Crossings: Indians Settlers, & Slaves in the Age of Jackson

Facing East From Indian Country: A Native History of Early America

Rethinking the Other in Antiquity

A Greene Countrie Town

The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

The Art of Not Being Governed

Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany

Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution

Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (A)

Ancient China & Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History

Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers (A)

Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age & the Later Roman Empire

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

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The over-arching goal of this history course is to provide the desire and tools for each student to become a lifelong history learner by equipping them with the ability to read history, critically acquire historical knowledge through a variety of mediums, and defend historical arguments orally and in writing. 
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