A selection of faculty publications from the Department of History, College of Arts & Letters, Old Dominion University.

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Submissions from 2024

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Prince Basketball's Ambassadors: Virginia Union's "Dream Team" and the Origins of Integrated College Basketball, 1938-42, Marvin T. Chiles

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The Challenges of Writing the History of Localities That Were Under Colonial Rule in the Early Phase of European Expansion: An Investigation into Writing the History of Negombo (Sri Lanka) in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries, Chandra R. de Silva

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[Review of the book Reading underwater wreckage: An encrusting ocean, by K. Quigley], Ingo Heidbrink

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[Review of the book Sailing to freedom: Maritime dimensions of the Underground Railroad, by T. D. Walker (Ed.)], Ingo Heidbrink

Submissions from 2023

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Donald R. Kelley (1931-2023), Michael C. Carhart

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[Review of the book Living the dream: The contested history of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, by D. T. Fleming]., Marvin T. Chiles

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[Review of the Book Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania, by A. R. Hoxha], Austin Jersild

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[Review of the book The Soviet Union and cold war neutrality and nonalignment in Europe, edited by M. Kramer, A. Makko, and P. Ruggenthaler]., Austin Jersild

Submissions from 2022

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‘It All Comes From Me’: Bahu Begam and the Making of the Awadh nawabi, circa 1765–1815, Nicholas J. Abbott

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Our Metropolitan Separations: The Case for Metropolitan Public Schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Marvin T. Chiles

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Reenvisioning Richmond's Past: Race, Reconciliation, and Public History in the Modern South, 1990-Present, Marvin T. Chiles

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Building Resilience in CTLs: Reflections on Practice, Lisa J. Hatfield, Julie Maxson, Jennifer Marshall Shinaberger, Hanna E. Norton, Cynthia (Cia) H. DeMartino, Annette Finley-Croswhite, and Gigi Gokcek

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“No One Thinks of Greenland:” US-Greenland Relations and Perceptions of Greenland in the US from the Early Modern Period to the 20th Century, Ingo Heidbrink

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Interpreting the History of a Region in Crisis, Robert H. Holden

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Armageddon Revisited: The 1973 Gubernatorial Election in Virginia, James R. Sweeney

Submissions from 2021

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"A Period of Misunderstanding": Reforming Jim Crow in Richmond, Virginia, 1930-1954, Marvin T. Chiles

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Eis ein vergessenes Ladungsgut, Ingo Heidbrink

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[Review of the Book Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959-1973: A New History, by D. Li & Y. Xia], Austin Jersild

Submissions from 2020

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After the Deluge: Central American Historiography at Low Tide, Robert H. Holden

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Violence, the State and Revolution in Latin America, Robert H. Holden

Submissions from 2019

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Practices of Intellectual Labor in the Republic of Letters: Leibniz and Edward Bernard on Language and European Origins, Michael C. Carhart

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Black, Megan: The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power, L. M. Lees

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Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, by Gil H. Renberg. Leiden; Boston : Brill 2017 (Book Review), Megan Nutzman

Submissions from 2018

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Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control: Subject to Examination, Brett Bebber

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Confrontations with Colonialism: Resistance, Revivalism and Reform under British Rule in Sri Lanka 1796-1920, vol 1, C. R. de Silva

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Quotidian Intimidation and Mussolini's Special Tribunal in Istria and the Eastern Borderlands, Maura Hametz

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Hopkins, A.G.: American Empire: A Global History, L. M. Lees

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Sklar, Martin J.: Creating the American century: the ideas and legacies of America's twentieth-century foreign policy founders, L. M. Lees

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A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World, Jane T. Merritt

Submissions from 2017

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Peradeniya's Contribution to the Rewriting of the History of Sri Lanka, Chandra Richard de Silva

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Beyond Mere War: Authority and Legitimacy in the Formation of Latin American States, Robert H. Holden

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[Review of the Book Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945-1959: A New History, by Z. Shen & Y. Xia]., Austin Jersild

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Empire, Patronage and a Revolt in the Kingdom of Kongo, Jelmer Vos

Submissions from 2015

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Author's response. [Review of The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History, by A. Jersild], Austin Jersild

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Talking Less but Saying More: Teaching US History Online, Carolyn J. Lawes

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Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America's Immigration Story, Elizabeth Zanoni

Submissions from 2013

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Everyday Life in Fascist Venice, 1929-40, Maura Hametz

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Uncertain States: Repatriation and Citizenship in the Northeastern Adriatic, 1918-1921, Maura E. Hametz

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Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience, Austin Jersild

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Italian American Collection at the Immigration History Research Center, Elizabeth Zanoni, Halyna Myroniuk, and Daniel Necas

Submissions from 2012

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Gender Concerns: Monks, Nuns, and Patronage of the Cistercian Order in Thirteenth-Century Flanders and Hainaut, Erin L. Jordan

Submissions from 2011

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The Soviet State as Imperial Scavenger: "Catch Up and Surpass" in the Transnational Socialist Bloc, 1950-1960, Austin Jersild

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"We Are No Grumblers": Negotiating State and Federal Military Service in the Pennsylvania Reserve Division, Timothy J. Orr

Submissions from 2009

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The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, Austin Jersild

Submissions from 2008

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Slavery-Era Disclosure and Atlantic Commerce, Keith R. Allen and Jelmer Vos

Submissions from 2007

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Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War, Maura E. Hametz

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The Business of War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865, Harold S. Wilson

Submissions from 2006

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Murder in the Metro: Mysterious Death Leads to Scholarly Work on Gender and Fascism in 1937 France, Annette Finley-Croswhite and Gayle K. Brunelle

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Envisioning the Italian Mediterranean Fascist Policy in Steamship Publicity, 1922-1942, Maura Elise Hametz

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De la Mujer Invisible al Feminismo Ineludible: Política y Antropología en la Historiografía de la Mujer, Robert H. Holden

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Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy 1883-1917, Austin Jersild

Submissions from 2005

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The Faux Pas of a Vert Galant: The Historiography of Henry IV's Military Leadership, Annette Finley-Croswhite

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What Is Your Anthropology? What Are Your Ethics?, Robert H. Holden

Submissions from 2004

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Tea Trade, Consumption, and the Republican Paradox in Prerevolutionary Philadelphia, Jane T. Merritt

Submissions from 2002

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The Dilemmas of Enlightenment in the Eastern Borderlands: The Theater and Library in Tbilisi, Austin Jersild and Neli Melkadze

Submissions from 2001

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Petroleum Tanker Shipping on German Inland Waterways, 1887-1994, Ingo Heidbrink

Submissions from 1998

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Trifling With Holy Time: Women and the Formation of the Calvinist Church of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1815-1820, Carolyn J. Lawes

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Southern Strategies, James R. Sweeney

Submissions from 1997

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Nutrition and the Early-Medieval Diet, Kathy L. Pearson

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A Segregationist on the Civil Rights Commission, James R. Sweeney

Submissions from 1994

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A New Day in the Old Dominion, James R. Sweeney

Submissions from 1993

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Urban Identity and Transitional Politics: The Transformation Of Political Allegiance Inside Amiens Before And After The City's 1594 Capitulation To Henry IV, Annette S. Finley-Croswhite

Submissions from 1992

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Many Voices, Similar Concerns: Traditional Methods of African-American Political Activity in Norfolk, Virginia, 1865-1875, Michael Hucles

Submissions from 1991

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Whispers in the Golden Silence: Harry F. Byrd, Sr., John F. Kennedy, and Virginia Democrats in the 1960 Presidential Election, James R. Sweeney

Submissions from 1982

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Rum, Romanism, and Virginia Democrats: The Party Leaders and the Campaign of 1928, James R. Sweeney

Submissions from 1978

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Revolt in Virginia: Harry Byrd and the 1952 Presidential Election, James R. Sweeney

Submissions from 1974

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The Golden Silence: The Virginia Democratic Party and the Presidential Election of 1948, James R. Sweeney

Submissions from 1973

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Railroads and Urban Rivalries in Antebellum Eastern Virginia, Peter C. Stewart