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Books from 2021
A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas, Kelly Houston Jones
The United States and Venezuela during the First World War: Cordial Relations of Suspicious Cooperation, H. Micheal Tarver
Submissions from 2020
Journal of Big History, David R. Blanks
Journal of Big History, David R. Blanks and Nicoló Antonietti
Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present, Colleen Boyette, H. Micheal Tarver, and Mildred Diane Gleason
Student Perceptions of Semester-Long In-Class Virtual Reality: Effectively Using “Google Earth VR” in a Higher Education Classroom, Patrick D. Hagge
Patrons in Revolutionary Europe, Ellen J. Jenkins
Visual Artists in Revolutionary Europe, Ellen J. Jenkins
War Production in The World War Years, Ellen J. Jenkins
Writers in Revolutionary Europe, Ellen J. Jenkins
Concubines in Colonial British and French North America, Gregory Michna
Girls in Colonial British and French North America, Gregory Michna
Mystics in Colonial British and French North America, Gregory Michna
The Long Road to Sainthood: Indian Christians, the Doctrine of Preparation, and the Halfway Covenant of 1662, Gregory Michna
The Story of Corn and Medicine, Gregory Michna
Warriors in Colonial British and French North America, Gregory Michna
White Hat: The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
Activists in East Asia since 1868, Joseph B. N. Swain
Court Musicians in East Asia since 1868, Joseph B. N. Swain
Dadeumi, Joseph B. N. Swain
First Female Chauffeurs in Japan, Joseph B. N. Swain
Introduction to Women in Australia and New Zealand since 1800, Joseph B. N. Swain
Keepers of Household Altars in East Asia since 1868, Joseph B. N. Swain
Lady Xuanwen, Joseph B. N. Swain
Mystics in East Asia since 1868, Joseph B. N. Swain
Rural Poverty in Latin America since 1825, Joseph B. N. Swain
Shamans in East Asia since 1868, Joseph B. N. Swain
Supplementing Agricultural Production in East Asia since 1868, Joseph B. N. Swain
Teenage Servants in East Asia since 1868, Joseph B. N. Swain
Tomb of Zheng, Joseph B. N. Swain
Warriors in East Asia since 1868, Joseph B. N. Swain
Widows in Industrial Era Europe, Joseph B. N. Swain
Witches in Colonial Latin America, Joseph B. N. Swain
Ama and Haenyo, Joseph B. N. Swain and Michelle Cave
The Media and Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972: A Comparative Study, Guolin Yi
Books from 2019
Big History and Critical Theory, David R. Blanks
The Sense of Distance and the Perception of the Other, David R. Blanks
Slave Resistance, Kelly Houston Jones
American Indian Slavery in Colonial New England, Gregory Michna
Colonialism, Community, and Heritage in Native New England by Siobhan M. Hart (Review), Gregory Michna
Harvard Indian College, Gregory Michna
Josselyn, John. Voyages to New England and Observations on Native Americans, Gregory Michna
Mather, Increase, Brief History of King Philip's War, Gregory Michna
Mayhew, Thomas Jr. (1621-ca. 1657), Gregory Michna
Reviews: Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England, Gregory Michna
Tribal Governance among the Algonquian Peoples of North America, Gregory Michna
John dewey’s rival versions of virtue, Jeff Mitchell
Review of Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land and Cramer’s Politics of Resentment, Michael T. Rogers
Track: Teaching Political Theory and Theories., Micheal T. Rogers, Robert Glover, and Melinda Kovács
Submissions from 2018
Jeremy Lent. The Patterning Instinct, David R. Blanks
Arrested Development: Historical Impacts and Influences of the State Boundary of Arkansas, Patrick D. Hagge
From Mule to John Deere: Elements of Rural Change in the Mississippi Delta, 1930-1970, Patrick D. Hagge
Bondswomen on Arkansas's Cotton Frontier: Migration, Labor, Family, and Resistance among an Exploited Class, Kelly Houston Jones
White Fear of Black Rebellion, 1819-1866, Kelly Houston Jones
Anna Maria Forssberg, The Story of War: Church and Propaganda in France and Sweden 1610-1710 (Book Review), Gregory Michna
Drew Lopenzina, Through an Indian’s Looking-Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot. (Book Review), Gregory Michna
The Church, Authority, and Foucault: Imagining the Church as an Open Space of Freedom. (Book Review), Gregory Michna
Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848-1886 (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865 (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change (Book Review), Micheal T. Rogers
H-Diplo Article Review 743 on “New Perspectives on Cold War History from China.”, Guolin Yi
Submissions from 2017
Edward O. Wilson. The Meaning of Human Existence, David R. Blanks
Scientific History and the Muslim Worldview, David R. Blanks
African-American Women and the Vote in Arkansas, Kelly Houston Jones
Doubtless Guilty: Lynching and Slaves in Antebellum Arkansas, Kelly Houston Jones
'A Prey to Their Teeth': Puritan Sermons and Ministerial Writings on Indians during King Philip's War, Gregory Michna
Protestant Missionaries, Gregory Michna
Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
The History of Civic Education in Political Science: The Story of a Discipline's Failure to Lead, Micheal T. Rogers
The Identity Dilemma: Social Movements and Collective Identity (Book Review), Micheal T. Rogers
Submissions from 2016
Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin, Andrew Korotayev, eds. Our Place in the Universe: An Introduction to Big History, David R. Blanks
Cosmic Evolution in the Cradle of Civilization, David R. Blanks
Europeans Before Europe: Modernity and the Myth of the Other, David R. Blanks
Chattels, Pioneers, and Pilgrims for Freedom: Arkansas's Bonded Travelers, Kelly Houston Jones
Women after the War, Kelly Houston Jones
Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country (Book Review), Gregory Michna
Exploring the Foundations of US State-Level Anti-Sharia Initiatives, Joshua L. Mitchell and Brendan Toner
Against the Grain: Colonel Henry M. Lazelle and the U.S. Army (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
Land Pirates on the Santa Fe Trail: Captain Philip St. George Cooke’s Encounter with Texas Privateers on the Santa Fe Trail in 1843, Jeffrey V. Pearson
The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
The Inner Workings of Democracy (Book Review), Micheal T. Rogers
The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, H. Micheal Tarver and Emily Slape
Books from 2015
Dude, Where's the Civic Engagement? The Paradoxical Effect of Civil Education on the Probability of Civic Participation, Donald M. Gooch and Micheal T. Rogers
Bondswomen's Work on the Cotton Frontier: Wagram Plantation, Arkansas, Kelly Houston Jones
Robert E. Cray. Lovewell's Fight: War, Death, and Memory in Borderland New England. (Book Review), Gregory Michna
Book Review: Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South; Tears of Repentance: Christian Indian Identity and Community in Colonial Southern New England, Gregory Michna and Tyler Boulware
Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
A Meta-History of Formal Civic Education: An Episodic History to be Repeated?, Micheal T. Rogers
Introduction: A Tocqueville Inspired Assessment of America's Twenty-First Century Civic Ecology, Micheal T. Rogers
Review of Challenges to Democratic Participation: Antipolitics, Deliberative Democracy, and Pluralism, Micheal T. Rogers
Civic Education in the Twenty-first Century: A Multidimensional Inquiry, Micheal T. Rogers and Donald M. Gooch
The New York Times and Washington Post on Sino–American Rapprochement, 1963–1972, Guolin Yi
Submissions from 2014
Rocket Science: Big History and Cosmic Evolution: A Review of Some Recent Papers by Eric Chaisson, David R. Blanks
Towards A Theory of Big History, David R. Blanks
Black and White on Slavery's Frontier, Kelly Houston Jones
A Cautious Enthusiasm: Mystical Piety and Evangelicalism in Colonial South Carolina (Book Review), Gregory Michna
Geronimo (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
Submissions from 2013
From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World (Book Review), Gregory Michna
Deliverance from the Little Big Horn: Doctor Henry Porter and Custer's Seventh Cavalry (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson