Faculty Bookshelf

Book Cover for A Broken Regiment featuring an original photo of Union veterans.

Lesley J. Gordon

A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut’s Civil War

Margaret Peacock and Erik L. Peterson

A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year

Lucy Moffat Kaufman

A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish
Lindquist Dorr - A Thousand Thirsty Beaches dust jacket

Lisa Lindquist Dorr

A Thousand Thirsty Beaches: Smuggling Alcohol from Cuba to the South During Prohibition
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John M. Giggie

After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915

Di Luo

Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945

John Beeler

Birth of the Battleship: British Capital Ship Design 1870-1881
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Janek Wasserman

Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918–1938
Dust jacket for Bloody Tuesday. Red background with black and white photo of police arresting demonstrators in Tuscaloosa.

John M. Giggie

Bloody Tuesday: The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa

John Beeler

British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880
Dust jacket with the book title, "Closed Seasons."

Julia Brock

Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South

Kari Frederickson

Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South
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Steven Bunker

Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz

Kari Frederickson

Deep South Dynasty: The Bankheads of Alabama
Image of dust jacket for Margaret Peacock and Richard B. Spence, eds., Documents from Modern Russia. Includes read outline of the Kremlin and the blue and white colors of the Russian flag.

Margaret Peacock

Documents from Modern Russia
Dust jacket showing etching of soldiers marching at top and of a devastated city below.

Lesley J. Gordon

Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War
Steinbock-Pratt Educating the Empire dust jacket

Sarah Steinbock-Pratt

Educating the Empire: American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines
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Jenny Shaw

Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference
Book cover showing a wood cut print of an exploration scene in China superimposed over a globe.

Matthew Lockwood

Explorers: A New History
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Heather Miyano Kopelson

Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic
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Joshua Rothman

Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson
Dust jacket showing an antique radio on the bottom.

Margaret Peacock

Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East
Cover for General George E. Pickett featuring a picture of Pickett.

Lesley J. Gordon

General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend
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John Beeler

Imperial Defence, 1868-1887

Margaret Peacock

Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
Cover for Inside the Confederate Nation featuing lithograph of women watching ships burn.

Lesley J. Gordon

Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas
Cover for Intimate Strategies showing US Grant watching a winter battle.

Lesley J. Gordon

Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives
Book cover for Juan José Ponce-Vázquez's Islands and Empire

Juan José Ponce Vázquez

Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690

Steven Bunker

La creación de la cultura de consumo mexicana en la época de Porfirio Díaz, Ricardo Martín Rubio Ruiz, trans.
front cover of Love and Death in the Great War

Andrew Huebner

Love and Death in the Great War
Dust jacket for Lawrence Cappello's None of Your Damn Business

Lawrence Cappello

None of Your Damn Business: A History of Privacy in the United States
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Joshua Rothman

Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861
Dust jacket for On Privacy. It has a beige top and a red bottom.

Lawrence Cappello

On Privacy: Twenty Lessons to Live By
Watercolor of an actress from the mid 1800s.

Holly Grout

Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France
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James D. Mixson

Poverty’s Proprietors: Ownership and Mortal Sin at the Origins of the Observant Movement

Daniel Riches

Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture: Brandenburg-Swedish Relations in the Seventeenth Century
Gray book dust jacket showing a Black woman working a movie projector in one photo and Black troopers in formation in another photo.

Lesley J. Gordon, Andrew Huebner

Race and Gender at War: Writing American Military History

Sharony Green

Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America

Julia Brock

Teaching Public History
Dust jacket for Teaching Public History Creatively in Alabama

Sharony Green

Teaching Public History Creatively in Alabama: About (Public) Face

Harold Selesky

The Aftermath of Defeat: Societies, Armed Forces and the Challenge of Recovery

Sharony Green

The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras

James D. Mixson

The Crusade of 1456: Texts and Documentation in Translation

Kari Frederickson

The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968
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Holly Grout

The Force of Beauty: Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic
Mustard yellow dust jacket with four ancient Persian coins pictured.

Rhyne King

The House of the Satrap: The Making of the Ancient Persian Empire
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Joshua Rothman

The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
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Erik Peterson

The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics
Dust jacket for limits of empire. It shows a mythical scene of cherubs, a muse, and a soldier.

Rhyne King

The Limits of Empire in Ancient Afghanistan: Rule and Resistance in the Hindu Kush, circa 600 BCE – 600 CE

Janek Wasserman

The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
Book jacket for John Beeler's Milne Papers, Volume 3

John Beeler

The Milne Papers, Vol. III: The Royal Navy and the American Civil War 1862–1864

John Beeler

The Milne Papers, Volume I: 1820-1859

John Beeler

The Milne Papers, Volume II: 1860-1862
Book cover for The Shortest History of Eugenics. It has a yellow background.

Erik L. Peterson

The Shortest History of Eugenics
Cover image of the book showing a dreadnaught.

John Beeler

The Transformation of British and American Naval Policy in the Pre-Dreadnought Era: Ideas, Culture and Strategy

Andrew Huebner

The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era
Book cover for Women of Rendezvous. Has embedded pictures of a map and the ocean.

Jenny Shaw

The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery
Cover for This Land of Promise. Green background with orange type lettering.

Matthew Lockwood

This Land of Promise: a History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain
Book cover for This Terrible War featuring a painting of a Union soldier sitting by a campfire.

Lesley J. Gordon

This Terrible War: The Civil War and Its Aftermath
front cover of To Begin the World Over Again

Matthew Lockwood

To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe

Erik Peterson

Understanding Charles Darwin
Book cover for Virtuosos of Faith

James D. Mixson

Virtuosos of Faith: Monks, Nuns, Canons, and Friars as Elites of Medieval Culture
Book cover showing the title, Voices from a Black Miami Neighborhood.

Sharony Green

Voices from a Black Miami Neighborhood: The Baa Haas, Liberty City, the Grove, and Beyond
Book jacket for War & Society in Colonial Connecticut

Harold Selesky

War and Society in Colonial Connecticut
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Lisa Lindquist Dorr

White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960