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Submissions from 2023
Chapter 6: Pre-suppression Jesuit Libraries Patterns of Collection and Use in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe, Kathleen M. Comerford
Review of A Companion to Cosimo I de’ Medici edited by Alessio Assonitis and Henk Th. van Veen, Kathleen M. Comerford
Review of Bellarmino e i Gesuiti a Montepulciano: Studi in occasione del iv centenario della morte di San Roberto (1621–2021) edited by Manlio Sodi and Anna Głusiuk, Kathleen M. Comerford
The Jumbal: Cookies, Society, and International Trade, Christopher E. Hendricks
Growing Wild: Visions of Wildlife Management as Agricultural Science in American Forests and Fields, Drew A. Swanson
“In Honorable Remembrance to All Generations”: Commemoration and the Making of Mormon Battalion Memory, 1921–2021, Michael S. Van Wagenen
Submissions from 2022
Chapter 2: Theological Revolution and the Entangled Emergence of Enlightenment Secularization, Jeffrey D. Burson
Review of I monaci Silvestrini e la Toscana (XIII–XVII secolo) edited by Francesco Salvestrini, Kathleen M. Comerford
Beyond Combahee: Barbara Smith and Black Radical Feminism, Julie de Chantal
‘A Ticklish Craft’: Viewing Britain’s Empire From Inside a Birch-bark Canoe in the Eighteenth Century, Kurt Knoerl
Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History, Bennett Parten
Sherman’s March Toward Reparations, Bennett Parten
Will Kevin McCarthy be the Next John Sherman?, Bennett Parten
American Revanchism: On Karen Joy Fowler’s “Booth”, Bennett Parten and Bennett Parten
Submissions from 2021
Process, Contingency, and Cultural Entanglement: Toward a Post-Revisionism in Enlightenment Historiography, Jeffrey D. Burson
Introduction: Rethinking the Criminalization of Childbirth: Infanticide in Premodern Europe and the Modern Americas, Sara McDougall and Felicity M. Turner
The Contradictions of Reform: Prosecuting Infant Murder in the Nineteenth-Century U.S., Felicity M. Turner
Submissions from 2020
Literature and the Great War: Poetry vs. History?, Allison Scardino Belzer
Women Writing the Great War for Children: The Diversity of the Italian Case, Allison Scardino Belzer
Review of Les Lumières catholiques et le roman français by Isabelle Tremblay, Jeffrey D. Burson
Review of The Secular Enlightenment by Margaret C. Jacob, Jeffrey D. Burson
The Polyvalence of Heterodox Sources and Eighteenth-Century Religious Change, Jeffrey D. Burson
Corresponding Consorts: Letters between Medici (Grand) Duchesses and Jesuits, 1540s–1620s, Kathleen M. Comerford
Did the Jesuits introduce “Global Studies”?, Kathleen M. Comerford
News and Notes: The European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project, Kathleen M. Comerford
Review of Negotiating Conflict and Controversy in the Early Modern Book World edited by Alexander Samuel Wilkinson and Graeme Kemp, Kathleen M. Comerford
Submissions from 2019
Book Review: Women Activists between War and Peace: Europe, 1918–1923 edited by Ingrid Sharp and Matthew Stibbe, Allison Scardino Belzer
Exploring the Diverse Experiences of the Great War One Hundred Years Later, Allison Scardino Belzer
Dark Night of the Early Modern Soul: Humanism, Dualing Cartesianisms, Jesuits, and the New Physiology in the Shaping of Enlightenment Thought, Jeffrey D. Burson
Entangling the ‘Century of Lights’ to Disentangle the Enlightenment, Jeffrey D. Burson
First Essay in the Forum on Dale K. Van Kley, Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe, Jeffrey D. Burson
Healing the Skeptical Crisis and Rectifying Cartesianisms: The Notion of the Jesuit Synthesis Revisited, Jeffrey D. Burson
Introduction: The Culture of Jesuit Erudition in an Age of Enlightenment, Jeffrey D. Burson
Review of Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment edited by Steffen Ducheyne, Jeffrey D. Burson
Introduction: From an “Age of Skepticism” to an “Age of Reason”, Jeffrey D. Burson and Anton M. Matytsin
The Council of Trent and the Augsburg Interim, Kathleen M. Comerford
Reasonable Doubt and the Birth of Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin and Jeffrey D. Burson
Submissions from 2018
Review of "Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War" by James Wright, William T. Allison
Review of "Withdrawal: Reassessing America’s Final Years in Vietnam" by Gregory Daddis, William T. Allison
War Mall: Civic Art, Memory, and War on America’s National Public Space, William T. Allison
Belzer on Gobetti, 'Partisan Diary: A Woman's Life in the Italian Resistance', Allison Scardino Belzer
Women’s Experiences with War, Allison Scardino Belzer
An Intellectual Genealogy of the Revolt against “Esprit de Système”, Jeffrey D. Burson
Refracting Century of Lights: Alternate Genealogies of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Thought, Jeffrey D. Burson
Review of ALAN CHARLES KORS. Epicureans and Atheists in France, 1650–1729; ALAN CHARLES KORS. Naturalism and Unbelief in France, 1650–1729, Jeffrey D. Burson
Review of God in the Enlightenment edited by William J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram, Jeffrey D. Burson
The Interweaving of Sacred and Secular: Metaphysics, Reform and Enlightenment in the Rivalry Between Dom Deschamps and Claude Yvon, 1769–1774, Jeffrey D. Burson
Review of Trent and Beyond: The Council, Other Powers, Other Cultures by Michela Catto and Andriano Prosperi, Kathleen Comerford
Review of A Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Bologna edited by Sarah Rubin Blanshei, Kathleen M. Comerford
Les provenances des bibliothèques jésuites européennes, Kathleen M. Comerford and Jamie Bond
Submissions from 2017
Review of "Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence" by Bryan Burrough, William T. Allison
Review of "Forging the Star: The Official Modern History of the United States Marshals Service" by David S. Turk, William T. Allison
Review of "Nixon’s Back Channel with Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Détente" by Richard A. Moss, William T. Allison
Review of "Redefining Science: Scientists, the National Security State, and Nuclear Weapons in Cold War America" by Paul Rubinson, William T. Allison
Review of The Catholic Enlightenment: The Forgotten History of a Global Movement by Ulrich L. Lehner, Jeffrey D. Burson
The Interlacing of Secular Implications and Sacred Discourse in the French Enlightenment: Toleration and Freedom of Expression in the Works of Abbé Claude Yvon, Jeffrey D. Burson
Ignatius of Loyola, Kathleen M. Comerford
Leo X de’ Medici, Pope, Kathleen M. Comerford
Review of "La Biblioteca del Collegium Goritiense Societatis Iesu nella Biblioteca Statale Isontina di Gorizia" by Guiliana De Simone, Kathleen M. Comerford
Review of "La Biblioteca del Collegium Goritiense Societatis Iesu nella Biblioteca Statale Isontina di Gorizia" by Guiliana De Simone, Kathleen M. Comerford
Review of The Jesuits and Italian Universities, 1548–1773 by Paul F. Grendler, Kathleen M. Comerford, Gian Paolo Brizzi, John Patrick Donnelly S.J., Simona Negruzzo, Maurizio Sangalli, and Paul F. Grendler
"Not a Judicial Act, Yet a Judicious One:" Honor, Office and Democracy, Christopher M. Curtis
Submissions from 2016
Review of "Anti-War Dissent and Peace Activism in World War One" edited by Scott H. Bennett and Charles F. Howlett, William T. Allison
Review of "The Lost Mandate of Heaven: The American Betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam" by Geoffrey Shaw, William T. Allison
The Novel and Vietnam, William T. Allison
Nurses, Spies, and Sacrifice: Female Citizenship and Patriotism in Italy, Allison Scardino Belzer
Chapter 11: Distinctive Contours of Jesuit Enlightenment in France, Jeffrey D. Burson
Review of Priests of the French Revolution: Saints and Renegades in a New Political Era by Joseph F. Byrnes, Jeffrey D. Burson
The Historiography of the Jesuits in the Italian Peninsula and Islands before the Suppression, Kathleen M. Comerford
Submissions from 2015
Review of "Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War" edited by Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini, William T. Allison
Between Power and Enlightenment: The Cultural and Intellectual Context for the Jesuit Suppression in France, Jeffrey D. Burson
Introduction: Towards a New History of Jesuit Suppression in Global Context, Jeffrey D. Burson
Review of Les Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, 1775-1776. Volume 77B edited by Nicholas Cronk, Jeffrey D. Burson
Unlikely Tales of Fo and Ignatius: Rethinking the Radical Enlightenment through French Appropriation of Chinese Buddhism, Jeffrey D. Burson
Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 2012, Jeffrey D. Burson, Karl Roider, and Alexander Mikaberidze
Jesuits and Their Books: Libraries and Printing around the World, Kathleen M. Comerford
Submissions from 2014
Safety by Design: Engineers and Entrepreneurs Invent Fire Safety in Mexico City, 1860-1910., Anna R. Alexander
Review of "Allies at Odds: America, Europe, and Vietnam, 1961-1968" by Eugenie M. Blang, William T. Allison
Review of "A Raid Too Far: Lam Son 719 and Vietnamization in Laos" by James Willbanks, William T. Allison
Review of "Indochina and Vietnam: The Thirty-Five Year War, 1940-1975" by Robert L. Miller and Dennis Wainstock, William T. Allison
Review of "Westmoreland’s War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam" by Gregory A. Daddis, William T. Allison
Maps, Calendars and Diagrams: Space and Time in Seventeenth-Century Maritime East Asia, Robert K. Batchelor
Three Generations of Unconventional Family Values: A Case Study of the Ashursts, Allison Scardino Belzer
Eighteenth-Century Thought, Jeffrey D. Burson
The Papal Bull "Unigenitus" and the Forging of Enlightenment Catholicism, 1713-1764, Jeffrey D. Burson
Vitalistic Materialism and the Theological Enlightenments of Abbé Claude Yvon in the "Encyclopédie", Jeffrey D. Burson
Cosimo I dei Medici’s Cooperation with the Jesuits in Creating a Christian Realm in His Expanding State, Kathleen M. Comerford
Review of Charles F. Hobson, "St. George Tucker’s Law Reports and Selected Papers, 1782-1825," Vols. 1-3, Christopher M. Curtis
Review of Watson W. Jennison, "Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860", Christopher M. Curtis
Reviewed Work: Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Jeffory A. Clymer, Felicity M. Turner
Rights and the Ambiguities of Law: Infanticide in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South, Felicity M. Turner
Submissions from 2013
Book Review: Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World., Anna R. Alexander
Incendiary Legislation: Fire Protection and Risk in Porfirian Puebla., Anna R. Alexander
Review of "A Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962" by Jonathan M. House, William T. Allison
Review of "Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam" by Nick Turse, William T. Allison
Review of "Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century" by Jeremy Kuzmarov, William T. Allison
Review of "Texans and War: New Interpretations of the State’s Military History" edited by Alexander Mendoza and Charles David Grear, William T. Allison
Review of "The Cambodian Wars: Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations" by Kenneth Conboy, William T. Allison
Review of "The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland" by Gretchen Heefner, William T. Allison
Review of "Vietnam Labyrinth: Allies, Enemies, and Why the US Lost the War" by Tran Ngoc Chau, with Ken Fermoyle, William T. Allison
