This is the home of a collection of faculty scholarship and creative works from the Department of History and Political Science at Arkansas Tech University.
If faculty members are interested in submitting publications here, please contact the site administrator at orc@atu.edu.
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
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
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
Journal of Big History (Volume 4, Number 1), David R. Blanks
Journal of Big History (Volume 4, Number 3), David R. Blanks
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
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
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
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
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
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