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From Black Studies To Multiculturalism: The Evolution Of The Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center At Wright State University, 1971-2018, Opolot Okia

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With the growth of Black studies departments and programs across the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the field developed with a prominent multidisciplinary focus and a mission to affect meaningful social change. Much of the literature on the Black studies movement has focused on the academic programs and departments established during this formative period. Outside of Ohio State University and Kent State University, little has been published on the development of Black studies in Ohio. Moving beyond academic programs, there is also very little research on Black cultural centers. Compounding this problem, the research on Black …

Bones Of Contention: Muslim Shrines In Palestine, Awad Halabi

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Threads Of Empire: Loyalty And Tsarist Authority In Bashkiria, 1552–1917. By Charles Steinwedel., Sean Pollock

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This book addresses relations between Russian imperial officials and the peoples of Bashkiria, in the southern Urals Mountains region, in the period between 1552 and 1917. Its purpose is to show the many ways that officials sought to weave Bashkiria into the fabric of Russian empire, as well as the ways that Bashkiria’s peoples shaped the process of their incorporation into it. Steinwedel rightly emphasizes the protracted, negotiated nature of this process. Russia’s “fundamental challenge” in extracting resources from the region was “to cultivate loyal servitors of the tsar who could represent and stabilize imperial authority” (4). As this and …

The Snail Darter And The Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered A Little Fish And Killed A River, Drew A. Swanson

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Comrade Father Thomas Mcgrady: A Priest's Quest For Equality Through Socialism, Jacob H. Dorn

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The congregation of St. Anthony's parish in Bellevue, Kentucky, just across the river from Cincinnati, was stunned on Sunday, December 7, 1902, when Father Thomas McGrady, its beloved pastor, announced his resignation. According to the fullest newspaper account, "there was bowing of heads, women and children wept." With great affection, the account continued, "almost all of the congregation lingered and crowded around their beloved pastor, weeping and pleading with him not to leave them." He told them he would remain in the community, "only not as their priest."

This account examines McGrady's decision to become a socialist, his experience trying …

Building A Community Of Inquiry And Analytical Skills In An Online History Course, Sheri Stover, Sean Pollock

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The purpose of this case study was to assess a history instructor’s attempt to redesign an introductory history survey course. Traditionally, it has been taught in a face-to-face environment within the university’s core curriculum program. It was redesigned as a synchronous online course that provided students with opportunities to work collaboratively to build a community of inquiry and to develop the analytical skills needed to understand course materials and compete in the 21st -century workforce. Students were required to attend daily 100-minute web conferencing sessions consisting of mini-lectures, polling questions and discussions in large and small groups (i.e., “breakout rooms”). …

Jerusalem: From The Ottomans To The British By Roberto Mazza (Review), Awad Halabi

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Review of the book Jerusalem: From the Ottomans to the British by Roberto Mazza.

Mustaches And Masculine Codes In Early Twentieth-Century America, Christopher Oldstone-Moore

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The purpose of this article is to deepen our understanding of twentieth-century masculinity by considering the social function of facial hair. The management of facial hair has always been a medium of gendered body language, and as such has elicited a nearly continuous private and public conversation about manliness. Careful attention to this conversation, and to trends in facial hairstyles, illuminates a distinct and consistent pattern of thought about masculinity in early twentieth-century America. The preeminent form of facial hair-mustaches- was used to distinguish between two elemental masculine types: sociable and autonomous. A man was neither wholly one nor the …

Comrade Father Thomas Mcgrady: A Socialist Priest's Quest For Equality Through Socialism, Jacob H. Dorn

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Ethno-Nationalism, Islam And The State In The Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder (Review), Sean Pollock

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Review of the book Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder (edited by Moshe Gammer).

Colonial Legacies: The Problem Of Persistence In Latin American History (Review), John Sherman

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Review of the book Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History (edited by Jeremy Adelman).

Radical Religion From Shakespeare To Milton: Figures Of Nonconformity In Early Modern England By Kristen Poole (Review), Christopher Oldstone-Moore

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Review of the book Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England by Kristen Poole.

The Forgotten Origins Of The Ecumenical Movement In England: The Grindelwald Conferences, 1892-95, Christopher Oldstone-Moore

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Ruth Rouse, writing in A History of the Ecumenical Movement, made an extraordinary claim about the origins of modern ecumenism. She identified two factors in the 1890s that, in her words, "changed the course of Church history and made possible the modern ecumenical movement." One was the Student Christian Movement, established m 1895 by the American Methodist layman, John R. Mott. The other factor was the Grindelwald (Switzerland) Reunion Conferences, an assembly mostly of English church leaders organized by a Methodist minister, Henry Lunn, between 1892 and 1895. Mott's movement is very well known to modern readers. The Grindelwald Conferences, …

Studies On The Internal Diaspora Of The Byzantine Empire (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire (edited by Hélène Ahrweiler and Angeliki E. Laiou).

The Gold Coast Church And The Ghetto: Christ And Culture In Mainline Protestantism By James K. Wellman (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism by James K. Wellman.

Byzantium In The Ninth Century: Dead Or Alive?: Papers From The Thirtieth Spring Symposium Of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996 (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book Byzantium in the Ninth-Century: Dead or Alive?: Papers from the Thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996 (edited by Leslie Brubaker).

Unsentimental Reformer: The Life Of Josephine Shaw Lowell By Joan Waugh (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell by Joan Waugh.

Leimon: Studies Presented To Lennart Rydén On His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book Leimon: Studies Presented to Lennart Rydén on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (edited by Jan Olof Rosenqvist).

The Making Of Byzantine History: Studies Dedicated To Donald M. Nicol (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book The Making of Byzantine History: Studies Dedicated to Donald M. Nicol (edited by Roderick Beaton and Charlotte Roueché).

Forlorn Hope Of Freedom: The Liberty Party In The Old Northwest, 1838-1848 By Vernon L. Volpe (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book Forlorn Hope of Freedom: The Liberty Party in the Old Northwest, 1838-1848 by Vernon L. Volpe.

Byzantine Diplomacy: Papers From The Twenty-Fourth Spring Symposium Of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 1990 (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book Byzantine Diplomacy: Papers from the Twenty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 1990 (edited by Jonathan Shepard and Simon Franklin).

The Social Gospel And Socialism: A Comparison Of The Thought Of Francis Greenwood Peabody, Washington Gladden, And Walter Rauschenbusch, Jacob Dorn

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Latins And Greeks In The Eastern Mediterranean After 1204 (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204 (edited by Benjamin Arbel, Bernard Hamilton, and David Jacoby).

Steeples And Stacks: Religion And Steel Crisis In Youngstown By Thomas G. Fuechtmann (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book Steeples and Stacks: Religion and Steel Crisis in Youngstown by Thomas G. Fuechtmann.

Handbuch Der Byzantinistik By Otto Mazal (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book Handbuch der Byzantinistik by Otto Mazal.

The Struggle For America's Soul: Evangelicals, Liberals, And Secularism By Robert Wuthnow (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book The Struggle for America's Soul: Evangelicals, Liberals, and Secularism by Robert Wuthnow.

Following In His Steps: A Biography Of Charles M. Sheldon By Timothy Miller (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book Following In His Steps: A Biography of Charles M. Sheldon by Timothy Miller.

Byzantium: Tribute To Andreas N. Stratos, 1: History - Art And Archaeology; 2: Theology And Philology (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book Byzantium: Tribute to Andreas N. Stratos, 1: History - Art And Archaeology; 2: Theology and Philology (edited by Nia A. Stratos).

Without Help Or Hindrance: Religious Identity In American Culture By Eldon G. Ernst (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book Without Help or Hindrance: Religious Identity in American Culture by Eldon G. Ernst.

Religion And Reform In The City: The Re-Thinking Chicago Movement Of The 1930s, Jacob Dorn

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