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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
Submissions from 2018
Jeremy Lent. The Patterning Instinct, David R. Blanks
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
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
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
The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, H. Micheal Tarver and Emily Slape
Submissions from 2015
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
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
Submissions from 2013
From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World (Book Review), Gregory Michna
Books from 2012
Sources in Patterns of World History. Volume 1: To 1600, Candice R. Gregory, Carey Roberts, and H. Micheal Tarver
'A Rough, Saucy Set of Hands to Manage': Slave Resistance in Arkansas, Kelly Houston Jones
Emancipation, Kelly Houston Jones
Sources in Patterns of World History. Volume 2: Since 1400, Carey Roberts and H. Micheal Tarver
Books from 2011
Europe in Asia: Mosques and Temples in the Age of Discovery, David R. Blanks
Humanist Perspectives on Sacred Space, David R. Blanks and Bradley S. Clough
Warren G. Harding: Harbinger of Normalcy, Mildred Diane Gleason and H. Micheal Tarver
World History Enclyclopedia, Era 8: Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1945. Part I & II, H. Micheal Tarver
Submissions from 2010
John V. Tolan. Saint Francis and the Sultan. The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter, David R. Blanks
Technology vs. Biology: European Expansion in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, David R. Blanks
Submissions from 2007
John V. Tolan. Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination, David R. Blanks
Books from 2006
The Wrong Sort of Mentor: Heterodoxy and Anticlericalism in Languedoc, David R. Blanks
Medieval Monks and Their World: Ideas and Realities: Studies in Honor of Richard E. Sullivan, David R. Blanks, Michael Frassetto, and Amy Livingstone
Reflections on the Importance of Teaching Spanish Borderlands in the U.S. History Class, H. Micheal Tarver
Submissions from 2005
Imagining India in the Sixteenth Century: An Italian in Vijayanagara, David R. Blanks
The History of Venezuela, H. Micheal Tarver and Julia C. Frederick
Submissions from 2004
Isabella I, H. Micheal Tarver
El Fracaso de un Sueño : Un Breve Análisis de la Insurgencia en Venezuela, 1960-1968, H. Micheal Tarver, Alfredo Angulo Rivas, and Luis Loaiza Rincón
The rise and fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez : An Historical Examination, Volume II: The Later Years, 1973-2004, H. Micheal Tarver, Alfredo Angulo Rivas, Luis Loaiza Rincón, and Luis Caraballo Vivas
Submissions from 2003
Globalization: An Historical Perspective, David R. Blanks
House Ways and Means Committee, H. Micheal Tarver
Submissions from 2002
Franco Cardini. Europe and Islam, David R. Blanks
Islam and the West in the Age of the Pilgrim, David R. Blanks
Latin American History, H. Micheal Tarver
Submissions from 2001
Family, David R. Blanks
Nadje, Al-Ali. Secularism, Gender and the State: The Egyptians Women's Movement, David R. Blanks
Rural Settlements, David R. Blanks
Slavery, David R. Blanks
The rise and fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez : An Historical Examination, Volume I: The Early Years, 1936-1973, H. Micheal Tarver, Alfredo Angulo Rivas, Luis Loaiza Rincón, and Luis Caraballo Vivas
Submissions from 2000
Paul Freedman. Images of the Medieval Peasant, David R. Blanks
The Cambridge World History of Food, Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Ornelas
Latin and South America, H. Micheal Tarver
The History of Sago, H. Micheal Tarver
Submissions from 1999
Gendering History: Europe and the Middle East, David R. Blanks
Western Views of Islam in the Pre-Modern Period: A Brief History of Past Approaches, David R. Blanks
Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Perception of Other, Michael Frassetto and David R. Blanks
Garcilaso de la Vega, H. Micheal Tarver
Louis A. Perez, Jr., H. Micheal Tarver
Submissions from 1998
Cultural Diversity or Cultural Imperialism? Liberal Education in Egypt, David R. Blanks
Fred Halliday. Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East, David R. Blanks
Globalization and Cultural Nationalism: the Myth of the West, David R. Blanks
Mountain Society: Village and Town in Medieval Foix, David R. Blanks
Robert L. Burns. Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350, David R. Blanks
Submissions from 1997
Del Sweeney, ed. Agriculture in the Middle Ages: Technology, Practice and Representation, David R. Blanks
Mauro Ambrosoli. The Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850, David R. Blanks
Yanaconaje, H. Micheal Tarver
Submissions from 1996
Byzantium and the Muslim World, David R. Blanks
Donald J. Kagay. The Usatges of Barcelona. The Fundamental Law of Catalonia, David R. Blanks
English Literature and the Egyptian Student, David R. Blanks
Images of Other: Europe and the Muslim World before 1700, David R. Blanks
Werner Rösener. The Peasantry of Europe, David R. Blanks
Submissions from 1995
The Price of Freedom in the Valley of the Vicdessos (1272 - c. 1360), David R. Blanks
Transhumance in the Middle Ages: the Eastern Pyrenees, David R. Blanks
Submissions from 1993
Regionalism in Medieval Languedoc: The Pays de Sabartès, David R. Blanks
Werner Rösener. Peasants in the Middle Ages, David R. Blanks
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease, Kenneth F. Kiple and H. Micheal Tarver
Submissions from 1992
Paul Freedman. The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia, David R. Blanks
Richard Hoffmann. Land, Liberties and Lordship in a Late Medieval Countryside: Agrarian Structures and Change in the Duchy if Wroclaw, David R. Blanks
Yves‐Marie Bercé. History of Peasant Revolts: The Social Origins of Rebellion in Early Modern France, David R. Blanks
Submissions from 1991
Manorialism in the Frankish Morea (1205-1430), David R. Blanks