Department of History Faculty Directory
Research Areas: Germany in the 1930s and Arkansas in the late 1800s.
Publications:
Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming summer 2004.
Who Killed John Clayton?: Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998.
Nazism, Liberalism, and Christianity: Protestant Social Thought in Germany and Great Britain, 1925-1937. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1991.
Translated, edited, and wrote introduction to The Guiding Star for the St. Joseph Colony, a guidebook for German Catholic immigrants to the Arkansas River Valley, originally published in German in 1880. Conway, Ark: Faulkner County Historical Society, 1997.
Research Areas: Medieval Spain, Religious Charity, Medieval Religious Orders, Medieval Legal and Social History
Publications:
Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic Frontier. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. Internet Edition (http://libro.uca.edu/rc/captives.htm), 1998.
Charity and Welfare: Hospitals and the Poor in Medieval Catalonia. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Internet Edition : http://libro.uca.edu/charity/charity.htm
“Rule and Identity: The Case of the Military Orders,” The Catholic Historical Review 87 (2001), 383-400.
"The Rhetoric of Ransoming: A Contribution to the Debate over Crusading in Medieval Iberia," Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of Crusades, ed. Michael Gervers and James M. Powell (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001), 41-52.
"Fable and Royal Power: The Origins of the Mercedarian Foundation Story," Journal of Medieval History 25 (1999): 229-41.
Research Areas: Civil War and American Reform Movements.
Current Research Projects: "Cultural Conflict in the Union Army during the Civil War."
Publications:
“Rich Man’s War, Rich Man’s Fight: Class, Ideology, and Discipline in the Union Army,” Civil War History 51 (September, 2005): 269-287.
Seeking
the One Great Remedy: Francis
George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform
(Ohio University Press, 2003)
Research Areas: Muscovy, 20th century Russia, Scottish Covenanters, and British constitutional history
Publications:
Our World from the Renaissance to the Second World War. Ann Arbor: Proquest, 2005.
Russia from the Rise of Moscow to the Revolution of 1917. Ann Arbor: Proquest, 2003.
Translated, edited, and wrote introduction to two volumes of A.A. Danilov and I.N. Souzdaltsev’s Russian History from the Great Reforms originally published in Russian in 1998. Vol I. Russian History from the February Revolution to the Great Patriotic War. Vol. II. Russian History from the Great Patriotic War to the New Russia. Ann Arbor: Proquest, 2003, 2004.
Translated, edited, and wrote introduction to A. Lubkov’s War, Revolution and the Cooperative originally published in Russian in 1997. Cincinnati: Thomson, 2001.
Translated, edited and wrote introduction to A.F. Kiselev’s The Trade Unions and the Soviet State: The Discourse, 1917-1920 originally published in Russian in 1991. Cincinnati: Thomson, 2001.
Research Areas: Victorian British Imperialism, Science and Technology.
Current Research Project: History of firearms.
Publications:
Firearms: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Press, 2004)
Pathways to the Past (Dubuque: Kendall Hunt, 2003)
Research Area: American Gilded Age/Progressive Era.
Current Research Project: Politics in Virginia and the South during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
Publications:
"Simon P. Hughes, 1885-1889," in The Governors of Arkansas: Essays in Political Biography. Edited by Timothy P. Donovan and Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., Fayetteville, Arkansas: The University of Arkansas Press, 2nd edition, 1995, pp. 83-89.
"William Meade Fishback, 1893-1895," in The Governors of Arkansas: Essays in Political Biography. Edited by Timothy P. Donovan and Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., Fayetteville, Arkansas: The University of Arkansas Press, 2nd edition, 1995, pp. 95-100.
"Fitzhugh Lee: Confederate Cavalryman in the New South," in The Governors of Virginia: 1860-1978. Edited by Edward Younger and James Tice Moore, Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia, 1982, pp. 110-120.
Research Area: 20th Century American mass culture.
Publications:
Charles A. Lindbergh: The Power and Peril of Celebrity, 1927-1941 (New York: Brandywine Press, 2003).
The Steelers Reader (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001; paperback edition, 2002).
"Sports, Politics, and Revenge: The Patriots' Strange Journey Home," chap. in A Season of Boston Sports (forthcoming, Harvard University Press, 2004).
"A Sacred Mission: Oliver Stone and Vietnam," chap. in Oliver Stone's U.S.A. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000): 66-90. Reprinted in 2000 Film & History CD-ROM Annual (2001).
"'We Are The People!': Idealized Working-Class Society in the National Police Gazette, 1880-1900," Mid-America: An Historical Review 84 (Winter/Summer/Fall 2002): 100-128.
"End Poverty in California," "National Youth Administration," "Newspapers and Magazines," "Share Our Wealth Society," in Encyclopedia of the Great Depression and New Deal (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001): 1: 131-132, 198-201, 229-230, 354-355.