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Submissions from 2023
Eleonora, Giovanna, and their Florentine Sons, Kathleen M. Comerford
What Is Peer Review, and How Do I Survive It?, Kathleen M. Comerford
A “Crop of Wild Game”: Wildlife Farming in the United States, 1900–1940, Drew A. Swanson
Submissions from 2022
Corruption Versus the Rule of Law: The Imperialism of Consumerism and Culture in the American War in Vietnam, William T. Allison
Ocean Media in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Indigenous Mapping in the Pacific, Robert Batchelor
Medici Grand Duchesses: Women at Work, Kathleen M. Comerford
Originalism at the Crossroads: Natural Law and the Allocation of Interpretive Authority in American Constitutionalism, Jonathan O'Neill
The Long Hunt: White-Tailed Deer as Cultural Symbol and Commodity, Drew A. Swanson
What A Woman Knows: Childbirth, Law, and Medical Knowledge in the Nineteenth-Century South, Felicity M. Turner
Submissions from 2021
Anti-Jacobin Rhetoric, Jeffrey Burson
Early Modern Renovations of the Sacred and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment, Jeffrey D. Burson
Submissions from 2020
Rethinking Religion in Eighteenth-Century France, Jeffrey Burson
Leaping the Precipice: The State of Enlightenment Scholarship and the Promise of Historical Entanglement, Jeffrey D. Burson
The Theological Revolution of Enlightenment, Jeffrey D. Burson
What Is Enlightenment? Revisiting Kant’s Potentially Unanswerable Question, Jeffrey D. Burson
To Own What She Knows: Women, Knowledge, and Property in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Felicity M. Turner
Submissions from 2019
Raising a Radical: Emilie Ashurst and Nineteenth-Century Social Networks, Allison Scardino Belzer
The Power of Parentage and Parenting in the Middle Class: William Henry Ashurst's Commitment to Reform, Allison Scardino Belzer
Guest Speaker: Georgia Southern University Phi Alpha Theta Inauguration, Jeffrey D. Burson
Sacred and Secular Enlightening between Freemasonry and Catholicism in an Ear of Cultural Revolution, Jeffrey D. Burson
Theodicy and Humanity: Resolving the Problem of Evil in the French Enlightenment, Jeffrey D. Burson
The Odyssey of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship & the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment, Jeffrey D. Burson
On the Water and Beneath the Waves: Stories of Coastal Georgia, Jennifer Sweeney Tookes and Kurt Knoerl
Troubling Maternity in the Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Atlantic, Felicity Turner
An Anatomy of Knowledge: Medicine in the Civil War Era South, Felicity M. Turner
From Midwife to Physician: The Development of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America, Felicity M. Turner
Proving Pregnancy: Physicians, Infanticide, & the Law in the Nineteenth-Century US, Felicity M. Turner
Revisiting Sarah Grimké’s Legal Disabilities of Women: Property and the Gendered Language of Rights in the Antebellum US, Felicity M. Turner
The Physician, the Jury, & the Corpse: Infant Death in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Felicity M. Turner
The Physician, the Midwife, & the Corpse: Interpreting Infanticide in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Felicity M. Turner
To Own What She Knows: Property and the Gendered Language of Rights in the Nineteenth-Century US, Felicity M. Turner
Submissions from 2018
Civil-Military Relations in the Reconstruction South: Three Community Studies, William T. Allison
Cultural Landscapes of War: Commemoration the First World War in Africa, America, and Australia, William T. Allison
Georgia’s Military Past, William T. Allison
My Lai and the Legacy of Vietnam: A 50-Year Perspective, William T. Allison
There’s A Lot Going On: America, Vietnam, and LBJ in January 1968, William T. Allison
With Arms or Food? A Local View of American Policy in Revolutionary Russia, 1918-1919, William T. Allison
Armistice Day: One Hundred Years of Remembrance, Allison Scardino Belzer
Italian Women in Uniform during World War I, Allison Scardino Belzer
Jane Austen and the Case for Great Books, Allison Scardino Belzer
Early Modern European History, Jeffrey Burson
Popular Culture in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France and England, Jeffrey Burson
Visions of Catholic Modernity, I, Jeffrey Burson
Ambivalent Anti-Rousseauians: Christian Apologetics between Radicalizing Enlightenment and Jean-Jacques Rousseau before the French Revolution, Jeffrey D. Burson
Defending Catholic Visions of True Faith on the Eve of Revolution: Anti-Rousseauianism and Enlightenment Apologetics, c. 1760-1789, Jeffrey D. Burson
Roundtable Presentation on Dale K. Van Kley’s Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe, Jeffrey D. Burson
Roundtable Presentation on The Future of European History and In the South, Jeffrey D. Burson
Jesuits as Global Citizens: Geography and World History in European Jesuit Libraries, Kathleen M. Comerford
Letters between the Jesuits and the Medici Grand Duchesses, Kathleen M. Comerford
Gender, Race, and Labor in the Household, 1700—1860, Felicity Turner
Bodies of Evidence: Infanticide, Women & Law in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Felicity M. Turner
Submissions from 2017
At the Crossroads: The Vietnam War in 1967, William T. Allison
Decisions for War: The Strategic Imperative for the United States in World War II, William T. Allison
Mobilizing Civilian Resilience During and After Conflict, William T. Allison
My Lai, the Law of Land Warfare, and Command Responsibility, William T. Allison
Post-War Society in the 20th Century, William T. Allison
POWs, Lost Causes, and Identity, William T. Allison
The Early Cold War, William T. Allison
The Vietnam War in Popular Culture, William T. Allison
Vietnam Veterans Memorials: What are They? What do They Mean?, William T. Allison
Women in Uniform One Hundred Years Later: Rethinking World War One in Italy, Allison Scardino Belzer
Aristocracy, Cunning Folk, Independents, Levellers, and Witches: England in the Seventeenth Century, Jeffrey Burson
The Politics of Religion in the Age of Revolutions, Jeffrey Burson
Perils, Pitfalls, and Promise of Teaching the World History Survey, Jeffrey D. Burson
Revising the Soul, Reclaiming the Natural Sentiment of Humanity from the Jesuits to the ‘Antiphilosophes’, Jeffrey D. Burson
The Interlacing of Sacred and Secular Discourse in the French Enlightenment: Perspectives on Toleration and Freedom of Expression in the Worlds of Abbé Claude Yvon, Jeffrey D. Burson
Varieties of Enlightening on the Margins of Enlightenment Catholicism: The Philosophers of Château d’Ormes and the Feud Between Dom Deschamps and Claude Yvon, Jeffrey D. Burson
Vernacular Texts in Northern Jesuit College Library Collections, Kathleen M. Comerford
Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project, Kathleen M. Comerford and Kyle Roberts
Women in Conflict: Constructing Identity in the Twentieth Century During Dictatorship and War, Hapsatou Wane and Allison Scardino Belzer
Submissions from 2016
The Southerner in Vietnam Fiction and Film, William T. Allison
The Vietnam Experience for the American Soldier, William T. Allison
War Town: Miss Saigon’s Saigon, William T. Allison
The British Bachelor: Surprising Truths about Single Men in the Nineteenth Century, Allison Scardino Belzer
Unconventional Family Values in the Victorian Era, Allison Scardino Belzer
Writing and (Re)Action: Reacting to the Past and Composition, Allison Scardino Belzer and Elizabeth Howells
Crucible of the Suppression: The Janus-Faced Jesuit Enlightenment, Jeffrey Burson
New Perspectives on Revolution, Counter-Revolution, and Religious Sensibility: England and France in Comparative Perspective, Jeffrey Burson
Reconstructing Thomas Jefferson: George Bancroft and the Nostalgia of American History, Christopher M. Curtis
Engendering Gender in the Law: Medicine, the Human Body, and Inquests in the Nineteenth-Century U.S., Felicity M. Turner
Property Rights versus Human Rights: Revisiting Margaret Garner (1856), Felicity M. Turner
Submissions from 2015
Demystifying the Hiring Process: The View from the Other Side of the Table, William T. Allison
English Women’s Involvement in the First World, Allison Scardino Belzer
From Revolution to Nation: A Changing World, Jeffrey Burson
Genealogies of Enlightenment among the Jansenists and Jesuits, Jeffrey Burson
Seventeenth-Century England and France: Gender, Theory, and Practice, Jeffrey Burson
Twilight into Dawn: Reflections on the Passage from Renaissance into the Age of Enlightenment, Jeffrey Burson
Twilight of the Renaissance or Dawn of Enlightenment Europe?, Jeffrey Burson
The Bicentennial of Waterloo: A Historical Retrospective on Napoleon and the Napoleonic Mystique, Jeffrey D. Burson
Professional Career Paths beyond the Classroom, Kathleen M. Comerford
The “Peculiar Foundations” of Ecclesiastical Authority: Case Histories from New South Wales, Virginia, and Cape Town, Christopher M. Curtis
Researching my Role for Myself: Reacting to the Past and Information Literacy, Caroline Hopkinson and Allison Scardino Belzer
Crime and Slavery in Antebellum America, Felicity Turner
Midwives, Mothers, Matrons, and Medical Doctors: Medicine and the Female Body in the Nineteenth-Century South, Felicity M. Turner
Reimagining the African-American Mother: Rights and the Racialization of Motherhood in the Reconstruction South, Felicity M. Turner
(Un)fit for Motherhood: Pathologizing ‘Murdering Mothers’ in the Post-Civil War Era United States, Felicity M. Turner
Submissions from 2014
Grand Strategy and the Great War, William T. Allison
Italy and the First World War, Allison Scardino Belzer
Nurses, Spies, and Sacrifice: Female Citizenship and Patriotism in Italy, Allison Scardino Belzer
