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
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 [Co-author Emma Hart]
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
Fordham University Press, 2023 [co-edited with Jewel Spangler and Frank Towers]
Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond
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
Temple of Peace: International Cooperation and Stability
Baker Series in Peace and Conflict Studies, Ohio University Press, 2022
Religion and Peace: Global Perspectives and Possibilities
Baker Series in Peace and Conflict Studies, Ohio University Press, 2022 [with Nukhet Sandal ]
The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan
University of Chicago Press, 2021
The book was awarded the 2023 International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize for the Best Book in the Humanities .
Cambridge University Press, 2021
Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic
Cornell University Press, 2021
We’re Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan and the Real Culture War of 1980s America
Oxford University Press, 2020
German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020; paperback edition 2021 [with Christopher A. Molnar]
Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam: 1945-1960
Honolulu University of Hawaii Press, 2020
Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II
Cambridge University Press, 2017; paperback edition 2019
Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship
University of North Carolina Press, 2017
Islam, Power and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin: The Politics of Land Control, 1790-1940
Boydell and Brewer Press and Rochester, NY: The University of Rochester Press, 2016
Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972
University Press of Kansas, 2006; paperback edition, 2016
Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era
The University of Virginia Press, 2015 [co-edited with Patrick Griffin, Robert G. Ingram, Peter S. Onuf]
Failed States and Fragile Societies
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 (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 (Ashgate, 2011).
David Curp, A Clean Sweep: The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing in Western Poland, 1945-1960 (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 (Bloomsbury 2009)
Brian Schoen, The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War , (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 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009)
Mariana Dantas, Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas (Palgrave 2008)
Ingo Trauschweizer, The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited Wa 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 (University Press of Kansas, 2008),
Kevin Mattson, Rebel’s All: A Short History of the Conservative Mind in Postwar America (Rutgers University Press, 2008)
Kevin Uhalde, Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007),
Kevin Mattson, Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century (John Wiley and Sons, 2006)
Chester Pach, Presidential Profiles: The Johnson Years (Facts on File, 2006)
Jaclyn Maxwell, Christianization and Communication: John Chrysostom and Lay Christians in Antioch (Cambridge University Press, 2006),
Peter John Brobst, The Future of the Great Game: Sir Olaf Caroe, India’s Independence, and the Defense of Asia (University of Akron Press, 2005).