Research
Faculty Publications
By Philip Levy
George Washington Written upon the Land explores this most famous of American childhoods through its relationship to the Virginia farm where much of it took place using approaches from biography, archaeology, folklore, and studies of landscape and material culture.
By Brian Connolly
Domestic Intimacies offers a wide-ranging, critical history of incest and its various prohibitions as they were defined throughout the nineteenth century by placing the fear of incest at the heart of conflicts over public life and privacy, kinship and individualism, and personal freedom.
By Erin Stewart Mauldin
Unredeemed Land reconsiders the Civil War's profound impact on southern history by tracing the environmental constraints that shaped the rural South's transition to capitalism during the late nineteenth century.
By David K. Johnson
In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands鈥攖he physique magazine produced by and for gay men. Buying Gay explores the connections and tensions between the market and this movement..
In Pursuit of Politics: Education and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
By Adrian O'Connor
In Pursuit of Politics offers a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution and sheds light on how revolutionary legislators and ordinary citizens worked to make a new sort of politics possible in eighteenth-century France.
By Cassandra L. Yacovazzi
Escaped Nuns argues that in the first half of the nineteenth century, ministers, vigilantes, politicians, and writers forged the image of the convents as a hive of abuse and torture, locking arms against convents. The result was a far-reaching antebellum movement that shaped perceptions of nuns, and women more broadly, in the US.
By J. Michael Francis and Kathleen M. Kole
Through a series of newly translated primary sources, Murder and Martyrdom presents the most comprehensive examination of the 1597 uprising of Guale Indians and its aftermath, shedding light on the complex nature of Spanish-Indian relations in early colonial Florida.
By S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli
Drawing on archival sources from both sides of the Atlantic and interviews with survivors of deadly attacks in Nigeria, The Asaba Massacre offer an interdisciplinary reconstruction of the history of the Asaba Massacre, redefining it as a pivotal point in the history of the Nigerian Civil War.