Publications of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas History Department faculty.
Submissions from 2021
We Are the Land: A History of Native California, Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer
United States Reconstruction Across the Americas., Joseph A. Fry
Review: The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice, by Trisha T. Pritikin, Andy Kirk
Lost in Translation? Constructing Ancient Roman Martyrs in Baroque Bavaria, Noria Litaker
"Our Most Sacred Legal Commitments": A Digital Exploration of the U.S. Supreme Court Defining Who We Are and How They Should Opine, Eric C. Nystrom and David S. Tanenhaus
The Woman of No Importance, Michelle Tusan
Colonizing Russia's Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe, Paul W. Werth
Submissions from 2020
Beyond Hawai'i: Native Labor in the Pacific World, William J. Bauer
A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution, Gregory Brown
Frank A. Kafker (1931–2020), Gregory Brown, Melanie Conroy, and Jeff Loveland
Andrew Dickson White and America’s Unfinished (French) Revolution, Gregory S. Brown
Chapter 2: Of Tennis Dresses, Golf Sweaters and Bicycling Shorts; College Women and the Making of the American Sportswear Industry, 1890–1960, Deirdre Clemente and Evan M. Casey
Sufism in the Ottoman Empire, John Curry
El Edén Envenenado: La Primera Epidemia de Cólera en Tucumán, 1867-1868, Carlos Dimas
La Larga Historia de Los Saqueos en la Argentina: De la Independencia a Nuestros Días, Carlos S. Dimas
Stève Sainlaude. France and the American Civil War: A Diplomatic History. Translated by Jessica Edwards. Forward by Don H. Doyle, Joseph A. Fry
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice, Joanne L. Goodwin
Ambassador of Cajun Music: Jimmy C. Newman, 1927-2014, Michael Green
Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West, Susan Johnson
Mediating America: Black and Irish Press and the Struggle for Citizenship, 1870-1914, Cian T. McMahon
American Horizons: US History in a Global Context, Volume Two: Since 1865, Michael Schaller, Janette T. Greenwood, Andrew Kirk, Sarah J. Purcell, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, and Christina Snyder
Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom: Mulattoes and Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America, Aaron Wilkinson
Submissions from 2019
Beyond Banditry: The Significance of Everyday Larceny in New Mexican Social History, 1837-1865, Michael J. Alarid
Not Dammed Indians: The Dos Rios Dam and the Politics of Indian Removal, William J. Bauer
The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age, William J. Bauer
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams, Sue Fawn Chung
Some Reflections on the Fluidity of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in an Ottoman Sunni Context, John Curry
"...Do You Want More?" A Brief History of Same-Sex Partnerships, Family Formations, and Marriage in Twentieth-Centurty U.S.A., Marcie M. Gallo
Casino Workers, Joanne Goodwin
Nevada’s Campaigns for Woman Suffrage, Joanne Goodwin
Practicing Critical Oral History: Connecting School and Community. By Christine K. Lemley, Joanne Goodwin
The Civil War and the Transformation of American Citizenship, Michael Green
The Election of 1860, Michael Green
Eastern and Western Empire: Thaddeus Stevens and the Greater Reconstruction, Michael S. Green
Amy K. DeFalco Lippert. Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco., Susan Lee Jphnson
Hoc Est Corpus Meum: Whole-Body Catacomb Saints and Eucharistic Doctrine in Baroque Bavaria, Noria Litaker
Telling Migrant Stories: Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film, Miriam Melton-Villanueva
The Woman Who Turned into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico, Miriam Melton-Villanueva
Religious Freedom in Modern Russia, Randall A. Poole and Paul W. Werth
CHRIS MYERS ASCH and GEORGE DEREK MUSGROVE. Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital., Todd E. Robinson
The Fierce Urgency of Now and Then, David S. Tanenhaus
BEREL LANG. Genocide: The Act as Idea., Michelle Tusan
The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c. 1760–c.1870, Paul Werth
Charleston and the Emergence of Middle-Class Culture in the Revolutionary Era. By Jennifer L. Goloboy, Elizabeth White Nelson
Lynn White's "Roots" and Medieval Technology and Social Change: The View from Outside Medieval Studies, Elspeth Whitney
Phlegmatic Landscapes: Perceptions of Wetlands, Acedia, and Complexion Theory in Selected Later Medieval Allegorical Pilgrim Narratives, Elspeth Whitney
Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Aaron B. Wilkinson
Dennis Gilbert, The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880–1970 (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), pp. x + 292, £19.95, pb., Thomas C. Wright
Submissions from 2018
Politica: A History of the New Mexican Elites in American Politics, Michael J. Alarid
Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the US-Mexico Borderlands, Michael J. Alarid
Ages of Anxiety: Historical and Transnational Perspectives on Juvenile Justice, William S. Bush and David S. Tanenhaus
Lisa Sousa. The Woman Who Turned into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico., Maria Raquel Casas
Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California’s Santa Clara Valley, Sue Fawn Chung
Jason Oliver Chang Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880–1940., Sue Fawn Chung
Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island, Jay Coughtry
Did Muslim Mystical Traditions Have a Politics in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire?, John J. Curry
How Does Sagittal Imbalance Affect the Appropriateness of Surgical Indications and Selection of Procedure in the Treatment of Degenerative Scoliosis? Findings from the RAND/UCLA Appropriate Use Criteria Study, Michael D. Daubs MD; Harsimran S. Brara MD; Laura B. Raaen MPH; Peggy Guey-Chi Chen MD, MSc, MHS; Ashaunta T. Anderson MD, MPH, MS; Steven M. Asch MD, MPH; and Teryl K. Nuckols MD, MSHS
A Coin for China? The Monetary Standards Debate at the End of the Qing Dynasty, 1900–1912, Austin Dean
Organizations, Marcia M. Gallo
Sexual Minorities and Sexual Rights, Marcia M. Gallo
Deans of Women and the Feminist Movement: Emily Taylor’s Activism by Kelly C. Sartorius, Joanne L. Goodwin
Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875. By Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhodes Neel, Anthony Graham
A Union Indivisible, Michael Green
A Union Indivisible: Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South by Michael D. Robinson, Michael Green
Stormy Present: Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846-1865, Michael Green
Preserving the Desert: A History of Joshua Tree National Park, Andrew Kirk
Cacicas, Escribanos, and Landholders: Indigenous Women’s Late Colonial Mexican Texts, 1703–1832, Miriam Melton-Villanueva
'We Hold it in Trust": Global Wildlife Conservation' Africanization' and the End of Empire, Jeff Schauer
Wildlife Between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa, Jeffrey Schauer
'We hold it in Trust’: The College of African Wildlife Management and the end of Empire, Jeffrey R. Schauer
Forty Years Ago, Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno Turned On His Mob Family, David G. Schwartz
Northern Eurasia, 1300-1800: Russian Imperial Practice from Tsardom to Empire, Paul Werth
Human Mobility in Russia’s Asian Empire, Paul W. Werth
One Eastern Church or Two? Armenians, Orthodoxy, and Ecclesiastical Union in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Paul W. Werth
Submissions from 2017
Ghost Dances, Bears and the Legacies of Genocide in California, William J. Bauer
Traditional Stories of the California Nations, Samantha S. Bell and William Bauer
Clothing the contadini: Migration and material culture, 1890-1925, E Casey and D Clemente
The Health of the Rurality: The Encuesta de Folklore and Popular Healing Practices in Tucumán, 1921, Carlos S. Dimas
Review: Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert by Michon Mackedon, Caryll B. Dziedziak
Organizations, Marcia M. Gallo
Taylor, Valerie (7 Sept. 1913-22 Oct. 1997), Marcia M. Gallo
Interview: "No One Helped:" Marcia Gallo on the murder of Kitty Genovese, Marcia M. Gallo and Lauren Gutterman
Women in Nevada History, Joanne L. Goodwin
Review: Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, Michael S. Green
Review: How Lincoln grew during his wilderness years into a politically savvy statesman, Michael S. Green
Review: The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America’s Liberties, Michael S. Green
Butte in the Eye of Nevadans, Michael S. Green
Growing Up Amid History, Michael S. Green
Nevada Republicans Look Toward an Uncertain 2018, Michael S. Green
Book Review: Unhappy The Land (2016), Cian T. McMahon
Review: Censoring Racial Ridicule (2015) and Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville (2015), Cian T. McMahon
Juvenile Justice, David S. Tanenhaus
The Constitutional Rights of Children: In re Gault and Juvenile Justice, David S. Tanenhaus
Pursuing Gault, David S. Tanenhaus and Eric C. Nystrom