History Faculty Publications
Submissions from 2023
Sixty Years of Service in Africa: The U.S. Peace Corps in Cameroon, Julius A. Amin
Submissions from 2022
Africans and African-Americans would honour Martin Luther King by rekindling their bonds, Julius A. Amin
Africa’s Tepid Response to Ukraine War Highlights Shortcomings of U.S. Diplomacy, Julius A. Amin
Submissions from 2021
Cameroon's Biya Is Africa's Oldest President: Assessing His 38 Years in Power, Julius A. Amin
Equality, Non-Interference, and Sovereignty: President Ahmadou Ahidjo and the Making of Cameroon-U.S. Relations, Julius A. Amin
President Paul Biya and Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis: A Catalog of Miscalculations, Julius A. Amin
An Entire Generation of Americans Has No Idea How Easy Air Travel Used to Be, Janet R. Bednarek
How Some People Can End Up Living at Airports for Months – Even Years – at a Time, Janet R. Bednarek
Religious Non-Affiliation: Expelled by the Right, William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2020
Cameroon’s Relations toward Nigeria: A Foreign Policy of Pragmatism, Julius A. Amin
Organized Collective Burial in the Port Cities of Roman Italy, Dorian Borbonus
Submissions from 2019
India’s Plan to Identify ‘Illegal Immigrants’ Could Get Some Muslims Declared ‘Foreign’, Haimanti Roy
Fundamentalism Turns 100, a Landmark for the Christian Right, William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid', William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'Notre Dame vs. The Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defied the KKK,' By Todd Tucker, William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2018
How African Leaders Betrayed MLK’s Vision after His Death, Julius A. Amin
President Paul Biya and Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis: Now is the Time for Bold Action, Julius A. Amin
Trump’s Insult Is Fed by Deep Ignorance about Africa among Americans, Julius A. Amin
Post-Colonial Cameroon: Politics, Economy, and Society, Joseph Takougang and Julius A. Amin
Submissions from 2017
Martin Luther King's Teachings Offer a Guide for Modern U.S.-Africa Relations, Julius A. Amin
No Easy Walk to Freedom: MLK’s Anti-Racism Crusade Needs to Be Renewed in Today’s World, Julius A. Amin
The Bible and Creationism, Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2016
America’s Legendary Ignorance about Africa Persists, Julius A. Amin
Keynote Address: University of Dayton's Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon, Julius A. Amin
Why Martin Luther King’s Anti-Racism Crusade Needs to Be Renewed, Julius A. Amin
Review: 'Flights of Imagination: Aviation, Landscape, Design', Janet R. Bednarek
Review: 'Motoring West: Automobile Pioneers, 1900-1909', John Alfred Heitmann
Review: 'Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century', Caroline Merithew
The Legal Construction of Whiteness and Citizenship in Maryland, 1780–1820, Patricia A. Reid
Paper Rights: The Emergence of Documentary Identities in Post-Colonial India, 1950–67, Haimanti Roy
Review: 'Hindu Muslim Riots', Haimanti Roy
Review: 'Recasting the Region: Language, Culture and Islam in Colonial Bengal', Haimanti Roy
Ordered Eating: Food and Social Structures, Bobbi Sutherland
Response: Are American Christians Persecuted?, William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism', William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'What Would Jesus Read? Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2015
African Immersion: American College Students in Cameroon, Julius A. Amin
What American Students Can Learn from Immersing Themselves in Africa, Julius A. Amin
Review: 'Death and Changing Rituals: Function and Meaning in Ancient Funerary Practices', Dorian Borbonus
Review: 'The Material Life of Roman Slaves', Dorian Borbonus
Maybe Irish Voters Actually Were Swayed by their Church, Una M. Cadegan
Review: 'Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism', Una M. Cadegan
In the 'Lógos' of Love: Promise and Predicament in Catholic Intellectual Life, Una M. Cadegan and James Heft
Review : 'Rural Unrest during the First Russian Revolution: Kursk Province', David W. Darrow
Review: 'States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in The Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic', David W. Darrow
Review: 'Atlantic Automobilism: Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940', John Alfred Heitmann
Review: 'Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America's Immigration Story', Caroline Waldron Merithew
Partition, Haimanti Roy
How the Goodman Read His Bible, Bobbi Sutherland
Biology Textbooks and the Decentering of the Scopes Trial, William Vance Trollinger
Stealing Freedom: Auto Theft and Autonomous Individualism in American Film, James Todd Uhlman and John Alfred Heitmann
Submissions from 2014
Roman Columbarium Tombs and Slave Identities, Dorian Borbonus
Review: 'Car Country: An Environmental History', John Alfred Heitmann
Stealing Cars: Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino, John Alfred Heitmann and Rebecca H. Morales
Review: 'Harold Frederic’s Social Drama and the Crisis of 1890s Evangelical Protestant Culture', William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism', William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2013
Rosa Parks' Courage Should Inspire Us All, Julius A. Amin
Navigating Body, Class, and Disability in the Life of Agnes Burns Wieck, Caroline Waldron Merithew
Evangelicalism and Religious Pluralism in Contemporary America: Diversity Without, Diversity Within, and Maintaining the Borders, William Vance Trollinger
Hearing the Silence: The University of Dayton, the Ku Klux Klan, and Catholic Universities and Colleges in the 1920s, William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'Godly Ambition: John Stott and the Evangelical Movement', William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2012
Margaret Morgan’s Story: A Threshold between Slavery and Freedom, 1820–1842, Patricia A. Reid
Partitioned Lives: Migrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-65, Haimanti Roy
Review: Darren Dochuk's 'From Bible Belt to Sun Belt', William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'Inventing the Holy Land: American Protestant Pilgrimage to Palestine, 1865–1941', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2011
Catholic Studies in the Spirit of 'Do Whatever He Tells You', Una M. Cadegan
Review: 'Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida', John Alfred Heitmann
Review: 'Wheels of Change: From Zero to 600 m.p.h.: The Amazing Story of California and the Automobile', John Alfred Heitmann
Portrait of a Nation: A Review of Claude Fischer's 'Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character', William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2010
Clear-Eyed: African Immersion, Julius A. Amin
Not All Autobiography Is Scholarship: Thinking, as a Catholic, About History, Una M. Cadegan
Reviews: 'Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America' and 'Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age', John Alfred Heitmann
Review: 'Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors', John Alfred Heitmann
Domesticating the Diaspora: Memory and the Life of Sister Katie, Caroline Waldron Merithew
The Haitian Revolution, Black Petitioners and Refugee Widows in Maryland, 1796-1820, Patricia A. Reid
Murderous Nation: A Review of Randolph Roth's 'American Homicide', William Vance Trollinger
Prescient Pacifists, William Vance Trollinger
Review: Mark Noll's 'The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2009
Running the Ancient Ark by Steam: Catholic Publishing, 1880-1950, Una M. Cadegan
Automobile Industry, John Alfred Heitmann
Auto Racing, John Alfred Heitmann
Drive-by Shootings, John Alfred Heitmann
Review: 'Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City', John Alfred Heitmann
The Automobile and American Life, John Alfred Heitmann
Sister Katie: The Memory and Making of a 1.5 Generation Working Class Transnational, Caroline Waldron Merithew
An Outpouring of ‘Faithful’ Words: Protestant Publishing in the United States, William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2008
Bridging the Racial Divide, Julius A. Amin
Review: 'The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe', John Alfred Heitmann
Rolls Royce Declares Bankruptcy, John Alfred Heitmann
Sugar Industry in the South, John Alfred Heitmann
A Response to John Sommerville’s 'The Decline of the Secular University', William Vance Trollinger
Reports from Fundamentalism’s Front Lines: ‘The Pilot’ and Its Correspondents, 1920-1947, William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2006
What I Overheard in the Sesquicentennial Conversation, Una M. Cadegan
'We Were Not Ladies': Gender, Class, and a Women’s Auxiliary’s Battle for Mining Unionism, Caroline Waldron Merithew
Submissions from 2005
Automobiles and Auto Manufacturing, John Alfred Heitmann
