Department of History

United States


Alison Games

Atlantic World

Research Interests:

Colonial America
Atlantic History
Migration

Selected Publications:

Douglas R. Egerton, Alison Games, Kris Lane, and Donald R. Wright. The Atlantic World: A History, 1400-1888. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2007.
migration
Alison Games.
Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Alison Games and Adam Rothman, ed. Major Problems in Atlantic History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.





Maurice Jackson


Research Interests:

Race and Revolution in the Atlantic World
African American History and Culture
Social and Labor Movements
History of Washington, D.C.


Ronald M. Johnson


Research Interests:

Nineteenth-Century American Cultural History
African-American History

Selected Publications:

Ronald M. Johnson with Abby Arthur Johnson. Propaganda and Aesthetics: the Literary Politics of African American Periodicals in the Twentieth Century. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, rev. ed. 1992.


Michael Kazin

Godly Hero
Research Interests:

U.S. Social Movements
U.S. Politics
Reconstruction to present

Selected Publications:

Michael Kazin.
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. New York, NY: Knopf, 2006.


Americanism Michael Kazin and Joseph A. McCartin, ed. Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.









Chandra M. Manning

Cruel War
Research Interests:

Nineteenth Century U.S.
Civil War
Reconstruction

Selected Publications:

Chandra Manning. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War New York: Knopf, 2007.


Joseph A. McCartinAmerican Labor


Research Interests:

20th-Century U.S., social, political
U.S. labor

Selected Publications:

Joseph A. McCartin and Melvyn Dubofsky. American Labor: A Documentary Collection. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004.

Labor's Great WarJoseph A. McCartin. Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-21.. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Michael Kazin and Joseph A. McCartin, ed. Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Joseph A. McCartin, ed. Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.


David S. Painter

The Cold War
Research Interests:

U.S. Diplomatic
International Oil Industry
Cold War

Selected Publications:

David Painter. The Cold War: An International History. London: Routledge, 1999.

David Painter. Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of US Foreign Oil Policy, 1941-1954. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Origins of Cold War
Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter, ed.
Origins of the Cold War: An International History. London: Routledge, 2005.

Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter, ed. Origins of the Cold War: An International History. London: Routledge, 1994.

David Painter and James E. Miller, ed. Documents on Germany, 1944-1985. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1985.


Adam Rothman

Slave Country
Research Interests:

Early national U.S.
Slavery
Atlantic World

Selected Publications:
 
Adam Rothman. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South. USA: Harvard University Press, 2005.


Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

China Confidential
Research Interests:

U.S. Diplomatic
U.S.-East Asian Relations

Selected Publications:

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker. Dangerous Straits: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.


Dangerous StraitNancy Bernkopf Tucker, ed. China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.









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