Books by History Faculty
Books by History Faculty
Recent Books Authored and Edited by Our Faculty
Our award-winning faculty have extensive expertise in our fields. Since 2005, we have authored or edited more than three dozen books among us.
Early Modern Atlantic Cities: Elements in Global Urban History (opens in a new window)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 [Co-author Emma Hart]
Berlin and the Cold War (opens in a new window)
Baker Series in Peace and Conflict Studies, Ohio University Press, 2024. [with Seth Givens]
A Continent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North America (opens in a new window)
Fordham University Press, 2023 [co-edited with Jewel Spangler and Frank Towers]
Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond (opens in a new window)
Ohio University Press, 2023 [co-edited with Timothy Anderson]
Ohio Center of the Book’s selection for Great Books from Great Place Selection, Library of Congress, National Book Festival; Allen Noble Book Prize
Amish Women and the Great Depression (opens in a new window)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. [with Steven D. Reschly]
Temple of Peace: International Cooperation and Stability (opens in a new window)
Baker Series in Peace and Conflict Studies, Ohio University Press, 2022
Religion and Peace: Global Perspectives and Possibilities (opens in a new window)
Baker Series in Peace and Conflict Studies, Ohio University Press, 2022 [with Nukhet Sandal]
German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century (opens in a new window)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020; paperback edition 2021 [with Christopher A. Molnar]
Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam: 1945-1960 (opens in a new window)
Honolulu University of Hawaii Press, 2020
Voting as a Rite: A History of Elections in Modern China (opens in a new window)
Harvard University Press, 2019
Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam (opens in a new window)
University of Kentucky Press, 2019
Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II (opens in a new window)
Cambridge University Press, 2017; paperback edition 2019
University of North Carolina Press, 2017
Boydell and Brewer Press and Rochester, NY: The University of Rochester Press, 2016
Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972 (opens in a new window)
University Press of Kansas, 2006; paperback edition, 2016
The University of Virginia Press, 2015 [co-edited with Patrick Griffin, Robert G. Ingram, Peter S. Onuf]
Failed States and Fragile Societies (opens in a new window)
Baker Series in Peace and Conflict Studies, Ohio University Press, 2014 [with Steve Miner]
Additional Books by History Faculty
Brian Schoen, The Old South’s Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress (opens in a new window) (Oxford University Press, 2011), co-edited with Frank Towers and L. Diane Barnes.
Michele Clouse, Medicine, Government, and Public Health in Philip II’s Spain: Shared Interests, Competing Authorities (opens in a new window) (Ashgate, 2011).
David Curp, A Clean Sweep: The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing in Western Poland, 1945-1960 (opens in a new window) (Online edition: Boydell & Brewer, 2012; Print University of Rochester Press, 2006).
Kevin Mattson, What the Heck are you up to Mr. President: Jimmy Carter, America's 'Malaise,' and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country (opens in a new window) (Bloomsbury 2009)
Brian Schoen, The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (opens in a new window), (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Winner of the 2010 Southern Historical Association's Bennett H. Wall Award
Miriam Shadis, Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Her Family: Political Women in the High Middle Ages (opens in a new window) (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009)
Mariana Dantas, Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas (opens in a new window) (Palgrave 2008)
Ingo Trauschweizer, The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited Wa (opens in a new window)r, (University of Kansas Press, 2008) won the Distinguished Book Prize of the Society for Military History.
Katherine Jellison, It’s Our Day: America’s Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945-2005 (opens in a new window) (University Press of Kansas, 2008),
Kevin Mattson, Rebel’s All: A Short History of the Conservative Mind in Postwar America (opens in a new window) (Rutgers University Press, 2008)
Kevin Uhalde, Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine (opens in a new window) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007),
Kevin Mattson, Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century (opens in a new window) (John Wiley and Sons, 2006)
Chester Pach, Presidential Profiles: The Johnson Years (opens in a new window) (Facts on File, 2006)
Jaclyn Maxwell, Christianization and Communication: John Chrysostom and Lay Christians in Antioch (opens in a new window) (Cambridge University Press, 2006),
Peter John Brobst, The Future of the Great Game: Sir Olaf Caroe, India’s Independence, and the Defense of Asia (opens in a new window) (University of Akron Press, 2005).