Jeffrey D. Burson, PhD ’06, analyzes the history of the French Enlightenment and its relationship to the French Revolution by casting it as a diverse constellation of Theological Enlightenment...
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Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War
In this groundbreaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell, PhD ’07, explores the impact of two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies on the major political and military events of the 1860s,...
Conservative Intellectuals and Richard Nixon: Rethinking the Rise of the Right
Sarah Katherine Mergel, PhD ’07, explores the relationship between postwar conservatives and President Richard Nixon from 1968 to 1974. Mergel uses the Nixon years as a window into the...
The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture
Victoria Grieve, PhD ’04, chronicles the processes of compromise and negotiation between high and low art, federal and local interests and the Progressive Era.
The Gods of Diyala: Transfer of Command in Iraq
In March 2004, Gregory M. Tomlin, PhD ’13, and Caleb S. Cage deployed to Baquba, Iraq, on a mission that would redefine how conventional U.S. forces fight.
Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School
Andrew Hartman, PhD ’06, offers a fresh perspective on the post-Cold War transformation in U.S. political culture by way of an examination of education.
Algernon Sidney Crapsey: The Last of the Heretics
Stephen Neese, PhD ‘02, reflects on a man whose life reflected the religious, social and cultural conventions of late 19th- and early 20th-century America.
Pat Robertson: An American Life
David John Marley, PhD ’04, delivers the first professional, independent biography in 20 years of Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition.
Powerful and Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive
Stephen Randolph, PhD ’05, returns to a conflict that severely tested America’s civilian and military leaders.