Faculty Publications
Check out books and other publications by current and emeritus faculty to learn what the Department of History has been exploring and debating.
Authors
Barclay | Daum | Dewald | Emberton | Handley-Cousins | Herzberg | Khafipour | Langfur | Liu | Mbah | McDevitt | Mitchell, Pablo | Mitchell, Robin | Muller | Nathan | Pack | Rembis | Rhoads | Schen | Seeman | Stapleton | Trumper | Vardi | Wolcott | Zubovich, Gene | Zubovich, Katherine | Emeritus Publications
Edited by: Barclay, Jenifer and Hunt-Kennedy, Stefanie. Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power (University of Illinios Press, 2025)
Barclay, Jenifer. The Mark of Slavery Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (University of Illinios Press, 2021)
Daum, Andreas. Alexander Von Humboldt: A Concise Biography (Princeton University Press, 2024)
Daum, Andreas. Alexander Von Humboldt (Beck Publishers, 2019)
Daum, Andreas. The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians, (Berghann Books, 2016)
Daum, Andreas. Kennedy in Berlin, (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Daum, Andreas, Die Freiheitsglocke in Berlin -- The Freedom Bell in Berlin, (Jaron Verlag GmbH, 2000)
Daum, Andreas. Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848-1914. (R. Oldenbourg 1998; 2nd edition 2002)
Dewald, Jonathan. Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France: The Rohan Family, 1550-1715 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015
Dewald, Jonathan. Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History 1815-1970, (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006)
Dewald, Jonathan (editor-in-chief), Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, 6 vols., (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004)
Dewald, Jonathan. The European Nobility, 1400-1800, (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Dewald, Jonathan, Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570-1715, (University of California Press, 1993)
Dewald, Jonathan, Pont-St-Pierre, 1398-1789: Lordship, Community, and Capitalism in Early Modern France (University of California Press, 1987)
Dewald, Jonathan, The Formation of a Provincial Nobility: The Magistrates of the Parlement of Rouen, 1499-1610, (Princeton University Press, 1980)
Emberton, Carole. To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner (W. W. Norton & Co., 2022)
Emberton, Carole and Bruce Baker, eds. Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles Over the Meaning of America’s Most Turbulent Era (Louisiana State University Press, 2017)
Emberton, Carol. Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence and the American South after the Civil War (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Handley-Cousins, Sarah. The Nursing Clio Reader Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice (Rutgers University Press, 2025)
Averill Earls, Sarah Handley-Cousins, Elizabeth Garner Masarik, and Marissa C. Rhodes. Spiritualism's Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Handley-Cousins, Sarah. Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North (University of Georgia Press, 2019)
Edited by David Herzberg, Joseph M. Gabriel, Nils Kessel. Dealing with Drugs: New Histories of Risk and Benefit (Boydell & Brewer, 2026)
Herzberg, David, Helena Hansen, and Jules Netherland, Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America (University of California Press, 2023)
Herzberg, David. White Market Drugs Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
Herzberg, David. Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)
Hani Khafipour, Mantle of the Sufi Kings: Political Sufism and the Rise of Early Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
Khafipour, Hani, The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Langfur, Hal. Adrift in an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2022)
Langfur, Hal. Native Brazil: Beyond the Convert and Cannibal, 1500-1900 (University of New Mexico Press, 2014)
Langfur, Hal. The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830, (Stanford University Press, 2006; paperback, 2009.)
Liu, Yan. Healing with Poisons Potent Medicines in Medieval China (University of Washington Press, 2021)
Mbah, Ndubueze. Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age (Ohio University Press, 2019)
McDevitt, Patrick. May The Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire 1880-1935, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004; paperback 2008)
Mitchell, Pablo and Katrina Jagodinsky. Beyond the Borders of the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West, (University of Kansas Press, 2018)
Mitchell, Pablo. Understanding Latino History: Excavating the Past, Examining the Present, (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Mitchell, Pablo. West of Sex: Making Mexican America, 1900-1930
(University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Mitchell, Pablo. Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920, (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Mitchell, Robin. Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (University of Georgia Press, 2020)
Muller, Dalia. Cuban Emigres and Independence in the 19th Century Gulf World (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
Nathan, Mark, From the Mountains to the Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2018)
Nathan, Mark. Buddhism and Law: An Introduction, (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Pack, Sasha. The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Modern Hispano-African Borderland (Stanford University Press, 2019)
Pack, Sasha. Tourism and Dictatorship: Europe’s Peaceful Invasion of Franco’s Spain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
Rembis, Michael. Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Rembis, Michael, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim Nielsen, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Disability History (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Rembis, Michael. Disabling Domesticity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Rembis, Michael and Susan Burch, eds. Disability Histories (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
Rembis, Michael. Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 (University of Illinois Press, 2013)
Rhoads Murphey with Kristin Stapleton. East Asia: A New History, Fifth ed. (Pearson Longman, 2009)
Schen, Claire, Charity and Lay Piety in Reformation London, 1500-1620 (Ashgate, St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History 2002)
Seeman, Erik. Speaking with the Dead in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Seeman, Erik. The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Colonial North America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)
Seeman, Erik. Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
Seeman, Erik and Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, eds. The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000, (Prentice-Hall, 2007)
Seeman, Erik. Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)
Edited by: Stapleton Kristin, Fan Xin and van Dongen, Els. The Sage Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2026)
Stapleton, Kristin. Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family (Stanford University Press, 2016)
Stapleton, Kristin and Kenneth Hammond, eds. The Human Tradition in Modern China. (Rowman & Littlefield, December 2007)
Stapleton, Kristin, Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937, (Harvard University Asia Center, 2000)
Stapleton, Kristin and P. Karans, eds. The Japanese City. (University Press of Kentucky, 1998)
Trumper, Camilo. Ephemeral Histories: Public Art, Politics and the Struggle for the Street in Chile (The University of California Press, 2016)
Vardi, Liana. The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 2012; paperback, 2014)
Vardi, Liana, The Land and the Loom, Peasants and Profit in Northern France, 1680-1800, (Duke University Press, 1993)
Wolcott, Victoria. Living in the Future Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
Wolcott, Victoria. Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
Wolcott, Victoria, Remaking Respectability: African-American Women in Interwar Detroit (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
Zubovich, Gene. Before the Religious Right Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States (University of Pennsylvaia Press, 2022)
Katherine Zubovich, Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital (University of Princeton Press, 2020)
Gerber, David and Bruce J. Dierenfield, Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District (University of Illonois Press, 2020)
Thornton, Tamara, Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life, (University of North Carolina Press, 2016)
Cahn, Susan, Coming On Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Women's Sport, Second Edition (University of Illonois Press, 2015)
Gerber, David and Alan Kraut, Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America's Immigration Story (Rutgers University Press, 2013)
Radford, Gail, The Rise of the Public Authority: Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Gerber, David, Disabled Veterans In History (University Of Michigan Press, 2000; revised and expanded, 2012)
Gerber, David, American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Edited by Roger Des Forges, Minglu Gao, Liu Chiao-Mei, Haun Saussy, with Thomas Burkman, Chinese Walls in Time and Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, (Cornell East Asia Series, 2010)
Cahn, Susan, Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age (Harvard University Press, 2007)
Edited by Gerber, David, Bruce Elliot, and Suzanne Sinke, Letters Across Borders: The Personal Correspondence of International Immigrants (Palgrave, 2006)
Gerber, David, Authors Of Their Own Lives: Personal Correspondence In The Lives Of Nineteenth Century British Immigrants To The United States (New York University Press, 2006)
Des Forges, Roger and John S. Major, The Asian World, 600-1500 (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Des Forges, Roger, Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History: Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003);
Edited by Bono, James, Stephen E. Wear, Gerald Logue, and Adrianne McEvoy,
Ethical Issues in Health Care on the Frontiers of the Twenty-First Century (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000)
Stinger, Charles, The Renaissance in Rome (Indiana University Press, 1985; pb. ed. 1998)
Radford, Gail, Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era (University of Chicago Press, 1996).
Thornton, Tamara. Handwriting in America: A Cultural History, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996)
Bono, James, The Word of God and the Languages of Man: Interpreting Nature in Early Modern Science and Medicine, Vol. 1, Ficino to Descartes (University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.)
Edited by Des Forges, Roger, Luo Ning and Wu Yenbo, Chinese Democracy and the Crisis of 1989: Chinese and American Reflections, (SUNY Press, 1993)
Frisch, Michael with photographer Milton Rogovin, Portraits In Steel (Cornell University Press. 1993)
Frisch, Michael, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft And Meaning of Oral and Public History (SUNY Press, 1990)
Thornton, Tamara, Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860, (Yale University Press, 1989)
Gerber, David, The Making Of An American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825-1860 (University Of Illinois Press, 1989)
Edited by Frisch, Michael and Daniel J. Walkowitz, Working-Class America: Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society (University of Illinois Press, 1982)
Frisch, Michael, Town Into City: Springfield, Massachusetts and the Meaning of Community, 1840-1880 (Harvard University Press,1980)
Charles Stinger, Humanism and the Church Fathers: Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439) and Christian Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance (SUNY Press, 1977)
Gerber, David, Black Ohio And The Color Line (University Of Illinois Press, 1976)