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Submissions from 2024

Metaverse in in the Geography Lecture Classroom? Evaluating ‘Group VR’ Possibilities Using the Multiplayer ‘Wooorld’ VR App, Patrick D. Hagge

Ranking Arkansas: Student-Surveyed Mental Maps and Preference Mapping of Arkansas Counties, 2018-2021, Patrick D. Hagge

Submissions from 2023

Find It on a Map: Country Location Identification in a University Geography Classroom, 2016-2022, Patrick D. Hagge

GIS in the Non-GIS Classroom: Using Student Mapping Assignments to Incorporate GIS in Traditional Lecture Classes, Patrick D. Hagge

The Rise and Stagnation of Google Earth VR: Dashing the Hopes of Immersive Geography Classrooms?, Patrick D. Hagge

Corpse Politics and the Traveling Bones of Jamaluddin al-Afghani, Kelsey J. Utne

Submissions from 2022

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Journal of Big History (Volume 5, Number 1), David R. Blanks

Science, Religion and Deep Time, Lowell Gustafson, Barry Rodrigue, and David R. Blanks

Fusing Machine Learning with Place-Based Survey Methods: Revisiting Questions Surrounding Perceptual Regions, Matthew Haffner, Patrick D. Hagge, C. Brown, R. Heyrman, and C. Perkins

Agricultural Power and Production in Antebellum America, Kelly Houston Jones

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Gender in the Footnotes, Kelsey J. Utne

Books from 2021

A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas, Kelly Houston Jones

A Career-Oriented Approach to Structuring the Political Science Major, Micheal T. Rogers

The United States and Venezuela during the First World War: Cordial Relations of Suspicious Cooperation, H. Micheal Tarver

Submissions from 2020

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Journal of Big History (Volume 4, Number 1), David R. Blanks

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Journal of Big History (Volume 4, Number 3), David R. Blanks

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Journal of Big History (Volume 4, Number 2, 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

Trevor Norris (Ed.), Strong Democracy in Crisis: Promise or Peril? [Book Review], Micheal T. Rogers

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

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Bodies in the Way: Delhi’s Dead and the Pressures of Space, Kelsey J. Utne

The Media and Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972: A Comparative Study, Guolin Yi

Books from 2019

Big History and Critical Theory, David R. Blanks

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The Sense of Distance and the Perception of the Other, David R. Blanks

The Annals of the Southern Mission : A Record of the History of the Settlement of Southern Utah, James Godson Bleak, Aaron McArthur, and Reid L. Neilson

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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

The Travels of Ibn Battuta to India, the Spice Islands, and China [Book Review], Guolin Yi

Submissions from 2018

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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

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Anna Maria Forssberg, The Story of War: Church and Propaganda in France and Sweden 1610-1710 (Book Review), Gregory Michna

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Drew Lopenzina, Through an Indian’s Looking-Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot. (Book Review), Gregory Michna

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Illustrating the Lives of Fort Mackinac's British and American Soldiers (Book Review of The Soldiers of Fort Mackinac: An Illustrated History by Phil Porter), 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

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H-Diplo Article Review 743 on “New Perspectives on Cold War History from China.”, Guolin Yi

Submissions from 2017

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Edward O. Wilson. The Meaning of Human Existence, David R. Blanks

Scientific History and the Muslim Worldview, David R. Blanks

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African-American Women and the Vote in Arkansas, Kelly Houston Jones

Doubtless Guilty: Lynching and Slaves in Antebellum Arkansas, Kelly Houston Jones

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'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

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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

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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

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A Communion of Churches: Indian Christians, Ministers, and Congregations in New England, 1600-1775, Gregory Michna

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