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Books from 2015
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
Books from 2013
St. Thomas, Nevada: A History Uncovered, Aaron McArthur
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
Turmoil on the Rio Grande: The Territorial History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846-1865 (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
Attention Deficit Democracy: The Paradox of Civil Engagement - By Ben Berger (Book Review), Micheal T. Rogers
The Contradictions of Real Socialism: The Conductor and the Conducted (Book Review), Micheal T. Rogers
Submissions from 2012
A Natural Disaster of Civic Proportions: College Students in the Natural State Fall Short of the Naturalization Benchmark, Donald M. Gooch and Micheal T. Rogers
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
Lost in Translation? Orthodoxy and Ontology in the Transatlantic World of the Jesuits, Gregory Michna
On a common misconception of Ruth Benedict's moral relativism, Jeff Mitchell
The Mormon Rebellion: America’s First Civil War, 1857-1858 (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
Sources in Patterns of World History. Volume 2: Since 1400, Carey Roberts and H. Micheal Tarver
A Civic Education Crisis, Michael T. Rogers
Sovereignty in Fragments: The Past, Present and Future of a Contested Concept - Edited by Hent Kalmo and Quentin Skinner (Book Review), Micheal T. Rogers
The Platonian Leviathan - By Leon Harold Craig (Book Review), Micheal T. Rogers
Special Edition on Civic Education & Civic Literacy in the Midsouth: Midsouth Politcal Science Review, Micheal T. Rogers and Gary Bugh
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
"A Mere Deception - A Mere Ignus Fatus on the People of America": Lifting the Veil on the Electoral College, Micheal T. Rogers
Books from 2009
Philip St. George Cooke, Jeffrey V. Pearson
Submissions from 2008
The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror by Alyson M. Cole (Book Review), Micheal T. Rogers
Submissions from 2007
John V. Tolan. Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination, David R. Blanks
The Local-National Connection and the Representation of Minorities, Sally Friedman and Micheal T. Rogers
History May Be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873 (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
The Life of Yellowstone Kelly (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
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
Tragedy at Red Cloud Agency: The Surrender, Confinement, and Death of Crazy Horse, Jeffrey V. Pearson
The History of Venezuela, H. Micheal Tarver and Julia C. Frederick
Submissions from 2004
The case for revolution in school sports, Jeff Mitchell
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
Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyenne, 1876 (Book review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
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
General Crook and the Western Frontier (Book Review), Jeffrey V. Pearson
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
Nelson A. Miles, Crazy Horse, and the Battle of Wolf Mountains, Jeffrey V. Pearson
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
Living a lie: Self-deception, habit, and social roles, Jeff Mitchell
William O. Douglas's "political ambitions" and the 1944 vice-presidential nomination: A reinterpretation, James L. Moses
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
Reason’s different tastes, Jeff Mitchell
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