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Review Of The Book Denial Of Genocides In The Twenty-First Century, John A. Drobnicki Nov 2023

Review Of The Book Denial Of Genocides In The Twenty-First Century, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Bedross Der Matossian.


Small Wonders: A Museum Of Missouri River Stories (Book Review), Howard Schaap Aug 2022

Small Wonders: A Museum Of Missouri River Stories (Book Review), Howard Schaap

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Reviewed Title: Small Wonders: A Museum of Missouri River Stories by James Calvin Schaap. [Iowa] : Floyd River Press, 2022. 237 pp, ISBN: 9798425172358.


H-Diplo Roundtable Xxii-30 On Nichter. The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. And The Making Of The Cold War, Jessica Elkind, John Milton Cooper Jr., Lloyd Gardner, Sophie Joscelyne, Luke A. Nichter Mar 2021

H-Diplo Roundtable Xxii-30 On Nichter. The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. And The Making Of The Cold War, Jessica Elkind, John Milton Cooper Jr., Lloyd Gardner, Sophie Joscelyne, Luke A. Nichter

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

A set of reviews of Luke A. Nichter's The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War, with a response from the author.


Review Of Neuman, Johanna. Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought For Women’S Right To Vote, Kelly L. Marino Jan 2021

Review Of Neuman, Johanna. Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought For Women’S Right To Vote, Kelly L. Marino

History Faculty Publications

Book review by Kelly L. Marino.

Neuman, J. (2019). Gilded suffragists: The New York socialites who fought for women’s right to vote. New York University Press.


A Roundtable On Robert K. Brigham, Reckless: Henry Kissinger’S Responsibility For The Tragedy In Vietnam, Amanda Demmer, Richard A. Moss, Scott Laderman, Luke A. Nichter, David F. Schmitz, Robert K. Brigham Apr 2019

A Roundtable On Robert K. Brigham, Reckless: Henry Kissinger’S Responsibility For The Tragedy In Vietnam, Amanda Demmer, Richard A. Moss, Scott Laderman, Luke A. Nichter, David F. Schmitz, Robert K. Brigham

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

A set of reviews of Robert K. Brigham's Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam, with a response from the author.


H-Diplo Roundtable Xx-20 On Matthew J. Ambrose. The Control Agenda: A History Of The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Scott Kaufman, Ronald J. Granieri, John Maurer, Luke A. Nichter, David Tal, Matthew Ambrose Jan 2019

H-Diplo Roundtable Xx-20 On Matthew J. Ambrose. The Control Agenda: A History Of The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Scott Kaufman, Ronald J. Granieri, John Maurer, Luke A. Nichter, David Tal, Matthew Ambrose

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

A set of reviews of Matthew J. Ambrose's The Control Agenda: A History of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, with a response from the author.


Lizzie Borden On Trial: Murder, Ethnicity, And Gender (Book Review), Kelly L. Marino Jan 2019

Lizzie Borden On Trial: Murder, Ethnicity, And Gender (Book Review), Kelly L. Marino

History Faculty Publications

Most Americans are familiar with the popular children’s rhyme about the accused Massachusetts woman Lizzie Borden and the 40, and subsequent 41, whacks she supposedly inflicted on her parents during their violent assassinations in the family home. However, few people know much about the actual history behind the Borden story. Over generations, popular depictions in literature, film, and television have skewed the details.


Review Of Before She Was Harriet By Lesa Cline-Ransome, Raeann Christine Jent Jan 2018

Review Of Before She Was Harriet By Lesa Cline-Ransome, Raeann Christine Jent

Library Intern Book Reviews

No abstract provided.


H-Diplo Roundtable Xix, 14 On Dynamic Détente: The United States And Europe, 1964-1975, Thomas Schwartz, Werner Lippert, Luke A. Nichter, Kenneth Weisbrode, Stephan Kieninger Dec 2017

H-Diplo Roundtable Xix, 14 On Dynamic Détente: The United States And Europe, 1964-1975, Thomas Schwartz, Werner Lippert, Luke A. Nichter, Kenneth Weisbrode, Stephan Kieninger

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

A set of reviews of Stephan Kieninger's Dynamic Détente: The United States and Europe, 1964-1975, with a response from the author.


H-Diplo Roundtable Xvii, 27 On Richard Nixon And Europe. The Reshaping Of The Postwar Atlantic World, Thomas A. Schwartz, Nigel Bowles, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, Geir Lundestad, Luke A. Nichter Jul 2016

H-Diplo Roundtable Xvii, 27 On Richard Nixon And Europe. The Reshaping Of The Postwar Atlantic World, Thomas A. Schwartz, Nigel Bowles, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, Geir Lundestad, Luke A. Nichter

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

A set of reviews of Luke A. Nichter's Richard Nixon and Europe. The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World, with a response from the author.


Book Review - Abandonment In Dixie: Underdevelopment In The Black Belt, Allison Galloup Jul 2016

Book Review - Abandonment In Dixie: Underdevelopment In The Black Belt, Allison Galloup

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Evangelist For A Religion Of Nature, Douglas Firth Anderson Jan 2016

Evangelist For A Religion Of Nature, Douglas Firth Anderson

Northwestern Review

Donald Worster’s A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir is a magisterial biography. It is the place to begin for understanding John Muir (1838-1914), the Scottish immigrant and popular U.S. Gilded Age and Progressive Era naturalist most famous as the self-appointed spokesperson for Yosemite Valley, the founder of the Sierra Club, and the most outspoken opponent of the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley by the City of San Francisco. Worster explores Muir’s tensions and contradictions. He also astutely analyzes Muir’s religiously-inflected “passion for nature.” He clarifies that Muir was not a neo-Transcendentalist, let alone a Buddhist, but rather …


Nichter On Burr And Kimball, 'Nixon's Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert Of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, And The Vietnam War', Luke A. Nichter Nov 2015

Nichter On Burr And Kimball, 'Nixon's Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert Of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, And The Vietnam War', Luke A. Nichter

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

A review of Nixon's Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball.


Cohen: Reconstructing The Campus: Higher Education And The American Civil War (Book Review), Julie Mujic May 2014

Cohen: Reconstructing The Campus: Higher Education And The American Civil War (Book Review), Julie Mujic

History Faculty Publications

Book review by Julie Mujic.

Cohen, Michael David. Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780813933177


Democracy, Memory, And Methodology [Book Review], Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Oct 2013

Democracy, Memory, And Methodology [Book Review], Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

No abstract provided.


Review Of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War In Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis Jul 2013

Review Of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War In Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis

History Faculty Articles and Research

A review of Nick Turse's Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.


An Unsettling Civil War: A Review Of Ruin Nation, Lincoln M. Fitch '14 Jan 2013

An Unsettling Civil War: A Review Of Ruin Nation, Lincoln M. Fitch '14

The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era

This review of Meghan Kate Nelson's Ruin Nation examines the immense environmental destruction and social impact of the Civil War. This brief review analyzes Nelson's work and it's implications for Civil War history.


Nichter On Mahan, 'Foreign Relations Of The United States, 1969-1976, Vol. 32, Salt I, 1969-1972', Luke A. Nichter Sep 2012

Nichter On Mahan, 'Foreign Relations Of The United States, 1969-1976, Vol. 32, Salt I, 1969-1972', Luke A. Nichter

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

A review of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, vol. 32, SALT I, 1969-1972 edited by Erin R. Mahan.


Book Review, Christian G. Samito (Ed.). Changes In Law And Society During The Civil War And Reconstruction: A Legal History Documentary Reader. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. 352 Pages. $29.50 (Paper), Thomas Reed Mar 2012

Book Review, Christian G. Samito (Ed.). Changes In Law And Society During The Civil War And Reconstruction: A Legal History Documentary Reader. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. 352 Pages. $29.50 (Paper), Thomas Reed

Thomas J Reed

No abstract provided.


A Fellowship In Learning: Kalamazoo College, 1833-2008 (Book Review), Julie Mujic Apr 2011

A Fellowship In Learning: Kalamazoo College, 1833-2008 (Book Review), Julie Mujic

History Faculty Publications

Book review by Julie Mujic.

Francis, Marlene Crandell. A Fellowship in Learning: Kalamazoo College, 1833-2008. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Kalamazoo College, 2008.


Jane Addams: Spirit In Action By Louise W. Knight, Mari Boor Tonn Jan 2011

Jane Addams: Spirit In Action By Louise W. Knight, Mari Boor Tonn

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

The common temptation to perceive greatness as imprinted at birth, however, is skillfully disabused in Louise Knight’s meticulous, insightful,and often poignant biography, Jane Addams: Spirit in Action, which traces the complicated odyssey of a well-heeled idealist—initially conflicted by her material privilege, disappointed by gender-codes confining her ambitions, and haunted by familial ghosts and duties—into the pantheon of U.S. political idols. Of particular interest to rhetorical scholars, Knight weaves into Addams’s arresting tale her early baptism into public speaking, writings that shaped her expression in public forums, rhetorical strategies she employed, and platform failures as well as successes. A prolific speaker, …


Evelyn Aschenbrenner. A History Of Wayne State University In Photographs (Book Review), Julie Mujic Apr 2010

Evelyn Aschenbrenner. A History Of Wayne State University In Photographs (Book Review), Julie Mujic

History Faculty Publications

Wayne State University (WSU) alumna and freelance writer Evelyn Aschenbrenner compiled this book to fulfill her own curiosity about the evolution of Wayne State University's campus in Detroit, Michigan.

Book review by Julie A. Mujic: Aschenbrenner, Evelyn. A History of Wayne State University in Photographs. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780814332825


‘Broken Brotherhood: The Rise And Fall Of The National Afro-American Council,’ By Benjamin R. Justesen, Eric S. Yellin Jan 2010

‘Broken Brotherhood: The Rise And Fall Of The National Afro-American Council,’ By Benjamin R. Justesen, Eric S. Yellin

History Faculty Publications

The dominance of Booker T. Washington and the loyalty of most African Americans to the Republican Party are often mistaken as markers of black political unanimity at the turn of the twentieth century. Even worse, they are assumed to stand for the whole of African American political life. Benjamin R. Justesen’s story of the struggles to establish and sustain the National Afro-American Council should serve as an important reminder of the tensions, diversity, and energy within black politics in this period. The reminder is so important, and so potential productive, that one wishes that Broken Brotherhood: The Rise and Fall …


Review Of America's Prophet: Moses And The American Story, Michael F. Russo Oct 2009

Review Of America's Prophet: Moses And The American Story, Michael F. Russo

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Nichter On Heiss And Papacosma, 'Nato And The Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts', Luke A. Nichter Aug 2009

Nichter On Heiss And Papacosma, 'Nato And The Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts', Luke A. Nichter

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

A review of NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts edited by Mary Ann Heiss and S. Victor Papacosma.


Review Of A Brave Vessel: The True Tale Of The Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown And Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest, Michael F. Russo Jun 2009

Review Of A Brave Vessel: The True Tale Of The Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown And Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest, Michael F. Russo

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of From Colony To Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, Michael F. Russo Jan 2009

Review Of From Colony To Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, Michael F. Russo

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Brokers Of Culture: Italian Jesuits In The American West, 1848-1919 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Sep 2008

Brokers Of Culture: Italian Jesuits In The American West, 1848-1919 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

History Faculty Publications

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

McKevitt, Gerald. Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780804753579


Review Of The Book Census Substitutes & State Census Records, John A. Drobnicki May 2008

Review Of The Book Census Substitutes & State Census Records, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book Census Substitutes & State Census Records.


Review Of The Book The Source: A Guidebook To American Genealogy, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki Sep 2007

Review Of The Book The Source: A Guidebook To American Genealogy, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book The source: A guidebook to American genealogy, 3rd ed.