2010-11 Faculty Publications

Department of History faculty at Western Michigan University regularly write books and are published in leading academic journals and periodicals.

Books, articles and book reviews

Coryell, Janet and Nora Faires. A History of Women in America. New York: McGraw- Hill, 2011.

Articles, Chapters, Other

Berkhofer III, Robert F. “France.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Medieval Studies Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396584-0055.

Berkhofer III, Robert F.. “Regions of Medieval France.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Medieval Studies  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396584-0099.

Berkhofer III, Robert F.  “Saint-Denis.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Medieval Studies Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396584-0100.

Berto, Luigi. “Note e proposte per uno studio prosopografico della Venezia altomedievale.” Studi Veneziani 59 (2010): 73-88.

Borish, Linda J. “Jewish American Sportswomen, Swimming, Gender and Reform in the Early Twentieth Century. “ In House of Wannsee Conference, Jewish Sport and Jewish Community, Selected Topics, edited by Toni Niewerth,  Tomasz Jurek, and Wolf-Dieter Mattausch, 395-418. Berlin, Germany: Gorzow, 2010.

Borish, Linda J. “American Jewish Women's Voices in Sport History: Heritage and Identity in Documentary Film and Research.” In People in Sport History – Sport History for People, edited by Kalle Voolaid, 108-120. Tartu, Estonia: Estonia Sports Museum, International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, 2011.

Brandão, J. A., et al, contributors. “Women of New France.” In Occasional Publications of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University, 2011.

Brandão, J. A. “No Grants, No Travel, No Excuses: Researching and Writing Early North American History in the Digital Age.” RiMe. Rivista dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, n. 4 giugno (2010): 663-672.  http://rime.to.cnr.it

Cousins, James. “Lexington’s ‘Established Order’ and the Creation of Transylvania
University.” Ohio Valley History 10 (Winter 2010): 3-24.

Cousins, James. “My Trip to the Filso.” The Filson Newsmagazine 10 (Summer 2010): 12-13.

Elder, E. Rozanne. “Bernard and William of Saint Thierry.” In Brill Companion to Saint Bernard, edited by Brian Patrick McGuire, 108-132. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2011.

Hadden, Sally, and Patricia Minter. “A Legal Tourist Visits Eighteenth-Century Britain:
Henry Marchant's Observations on British Courts, 1771-1772.” Law and History Review 29 (2011): 133-179.

Kachun, Mitch. "Juneteenth, Julia Collins & Exploring History: Digging for Lost Stories
from a Changing Past." The Journal of the Lycoming County (PA) Historical Society 66 (Winter 2010-11)

Kachun, Mitch. “Celebrating Emancipation and Contesting Freedom in Washington, DC.” In In the Shadow of Freedom: The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital, edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon, 220-237. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.

Pyenson, Lewis R. and Christophe Verbruggen. “Elements of the Modernist Creed in
Henri Pirenne and George Sarton,” History of Science 49 (2011): 377-394.

Pyenson, Lewis R. “The Enlightened Image of Nature in the Dutch East Indies: Consequences of Postmodernist Doctrine for Broad Structures and Intimate Life.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 41 (2011): 1-40.

Pyenson, Lewis R. “Fisica en La Plata.” In Una Gloria Silenciosa: Dos Siglos de Ciencia en Argentina, edited by Miguel de Asu, 170-176. Buenos Aires: Libros de Zorzal, 2010.

Pyenson, Lewis R. “Technology’s Triumph over Science.” Chronicle of Higher Education March 6, 2011, B4-B5.

Rubin, Eli. “The Stuff That Progress Was Made Of.” Humboldt Kosmos 1 (2011).

Rubin, Eli. “Concrete Utopia: Everyday Life and Socialism in Berlin-Marzahn.”
Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Supplement 7 (2011): 29-45.

Steuer, Kenneth. "German Propaganda and Prisoners of War in World War II." In
Propaganda in World War I, edited by Troy Paddock. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2011.

Strong, Anise. “Mules in Herodotus: The Destiny of Half-Breeds,” Classical World 103
 (Summer 2010): 455-464.

Strong, Anise. “The Dream of Augustus,” In C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs, eds., Classics and Comics, edited by C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Verbruggen, Christophe and Lewis R. Pyenson. “History and the History of Science in
the Work of Hendrik De Man.” Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis
41(2011): 487-511.

 

Book Reviews

 

Berkhofer, Robert. Review of Monastic Reform as Process: Realities and Representations in Medieval Flanders, 900-1100. by Steven Vanderputten. H-France Review 14 (February, 2014) (electronic journal)

Gray, Marion. Review of Freedom’s Price: Serfdom, Subjection, and Reform in Prussia, 1648–1848 by S. A. Eddie. German History 32:4(2014): 638-640.

Hadden, Sally. Review of The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause: Immigrants, Blacks, and States’ Rights in Antebellum America, byTony Freyer. Civil War Book Review Online (Winter 2015)

Pyenson, Lewis. Review of Uncovering the Germanic Past: Merovingian Archaeology in France,1830-1914, by Bonnie Effros and Race, Science, and the Nation: Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany, by Chris Manias. American Historical Review  119:4(2014): 1368-1370. 

Xiong, Victor. Review of The Capital of the Yuan Dynasty, by Gaohua Chen. CHOICE March 2015.

Yoshida, Takashi. Review of Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868-1964, by Takashi Nishiyama  Journal of Japanese Studies 41:2 (2015): 389-392.