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, Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp (University of Toronto Press, 2015). *Recipient of the Nonfiction Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature.

Kent Blansett, "When the Stars Fell from the Sky: The Cherokee Nation and Autonomy in the Civil War" in Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West, edited by Virginia Scharff (University of California Press, 2015)

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 Conseuences (University of Iowa Press, 2005)
Moshe Gershovich, French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and its Consequences (Routledge Press, 1999)
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)