Department of History

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Alison Games

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.

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.

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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.

Selected Publications:

Maurice Jackson, Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet Father of Atlantic Abolitionism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).

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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.

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Michael Kazin

Research Interests:

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

Selected Publications:
Michael Kazin, ed., In Search of Progressive America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).


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

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.

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Chandra M. Manning

Research Interests:

Nineteenth Century U.S.
Civil War
Reconstruction

Selected Publications:

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David S. Painter

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.

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.

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Adam Rothman

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.

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Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

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.


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

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