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Professor Heather Cox Richardson's book, Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, was named the Must Read Nonfiction book of 2011 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, which is the Commonwealth's affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. For more information, visit www.massbook.org.
The History Department is pleased to announce that it is conducting job searches for new faculty members. Please take a look at this page in order to see the descriptions of the openings.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Professor Emeritus and University Historian Thomas O'Connor wrote an article in the Boston Globe in August 2011 looking at the unexpected results that the war had on Boston. Please click here to read the article.
Ph.D. candidate Peter Cajka was awarded First place in the category of Best Feature Article in a Scholarly Magazine at the 2011 Catholic Press Conference for his article, "Riding with Saint Paul in the Passenger Side”: The Archdiocese of Milwaukee Enters the Automobile Age, 1920-1965," published in the summer 2010 edition of the journal American Catholic Studies. Of Cajka's article the CPC wrote, "This article offers a great exploration of how technology and religion interact. Its moral implications stand next to a solid analysis of past and present use of technology within the Catholic faith."
Prof. Prasannan Parthasarathi published his book Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850 in September 2011 through Cambridge University Press. In this book, Dr. Parthasarathi provides a rereading of rereading of global economic development that ranges from India, Japan and China to Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire and from the textile and coal industries to the roles of science, technology, and the state and provides a new answer as to why Europe industrialized and Asia did not. Please click here for more information.
Prof. Owen Stanwood published his first book The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution in August 2011, Mark Peterson of the University of California, Berkeley wrote: "Deeply and broadly researched, The Empire Reformed offers a compelling explanation for the political turbulence in colonial North America in the late seventeenth century, and frames it powerfully in a narrative account that makes sense of events in the region from the Chesapeake northward, between the Great Lakes to the West, and the Atlantic Ocean to the East." Please click here to view more information.