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Faculty Publications

Faculty Publications

The History Department faculty have produced an array of award-winning material in their scholarly publications.

Recent Faculty Publications

Mark Celinscak, Artistic Representations of Suffering: Rights, Resistance, and Remembrance (Rowman & Littlefield, October 2021)

Charles King, The Ancient Roman Afterlife: Di Manes, Belief & the Cult of the Dead (University of Texas Press, April 2020)

Mark Scherer, Echo of Its Time: The History of the Federal District Court of Nebraska, 1867-1933 (University of Nebraska Press, February 2019)
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Danielle Battisti, 'Whom We Shall Welcome' : Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965 (Fordham University Press, March 5, 2019)

Danielle Battisti, "Italian Americans, Consumerism, and the Cold War in Transnational Perspective" in Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities, edited by Simone Cinotto (Fordham University Press, 2014). (Recipient of the 2015 John G. Cawelti Award for Best Textbook in Popular and American Cultural History from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Read more here!)
Martina Saltamacchia, Costruire Cattedrali. Il popolo del Duomo di Milano (Italian) (Marietti, 2011)
John A. Grigg, The Lives of David Brainerd: The Making of an American Evangelical Icon (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Mark R. Scherer, Rights in the Balance: Free Press, Fair Trial, and Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart (Finalist for the 2009 Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize)
Dennis J. Smith, David Miller, Joseph R. McGeshick, James Shanley, and Caleb Shields, Eds., The History of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, 1800-2000 (Montana Historical Society Press, 2008)
Martina Saltamacchia, Milano, un popolo e il suo Duomo (Italian) (Marietti, 2007)

Sharon E. Wood, The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) (Recipient of the 2006 Benjamin H. Shambaugh Award from the State Historical Society of Iowa)
Sharon E. Wood, ed., A Home in the West: Emigration and its Consequences (University of Iowa Press, 2005)
Mark R. Scherer, Imperfect Victories: The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945-1995 (University of Nebraska Press, 1999) (Honorable Mention for the 2000 Benjamin H. Shambaugh Award from the State Historical Society of Iowa)