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Articles
Up From the Farm: A Global Microhistory of Rural Americans and Africans in the First World War, Melvin E. Page (2021)
Delineating the Peace: Marking Oaxaca's State Boundaries, 1856-1912, Daniel Newcomer (2018)
Expressions of Power in Diplomacy in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Jeffrey Maxson (2017)
Review of Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome: the Rise of the Resident Ambassador, by Catherine Fletcher., Brian Maxson (2016)
The Lost Oral Performance: Giannozzo Manetti and Spoken Oratory in Venice in 1448, Brian Maxson (2016)
The Certame Coronario as Performative Ritual, Brian Jeffrey Maxson (2016)
Giannozzo Manetti's Oratio in Funere Iannotii Pandolfini: Art, Humanism and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Jeffrey Maxson and Stefano U. Baldassarri (2016)
Book Review of Robert Morris’s Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder by Ryan K. Smith, Dinah Mayo-Bobee (2016)
Introduction, Nicholas Baker and Brian Maxson (2015)
The 'Schemes' of Piero de' Pazzi and the Conflict with the Medici (1461–2), Oren Margolis and Brian Maxson (2015)
Review of Living Well in Renaissance Italy: The Virtues of Humanism and the Irony of Leon Battista Alberti, by Timothy Kircher., Brian Maxson (2015)
Review of The Duke’s Assassin: Exile and Death of Lorenzino de’ Medici, by Stefano Dall'Aglio, trans. by Donald Weinstein., Brian Maxson (2015)
Review of The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance, ed. by Michael Wyatt., Brian Maxson (2015)
Review of The Italian Renaissance and Cultural history of the Rinascimento, Brian Maxson (2015)
Understanding the Essex Junto: Fear, Dissent, and Propaganda in the Early Republic, Dinah Mayo-Bobee (2015)
Giannozzo Manetti, the Emperor, and the Praise of a King in 1452, Stefano Baldassarri and Brian Maxson (2014)
Integration and Synergy of Research and Graduate Education in Science, Humanities, and Social Science, Karin Bartoszuk, Cecelia McIntosh, and Brian Maxson (2014)
Review of Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy, Brian Maxson (2014)
Review of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga: Power Sharing at the Italian Renaissance Court, Brian Maxson (2014)
Review of The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe, Brian Maxson (2014)
Nineteenth-Century Royal Navy Sailors From Africa and the African Diaspora: Research Methodology, John Rankin (2014)
Claiming Byzantium: Papal Diplomacy, Biondo Flavio, and the Fourth Crusade, Brian Maxson (2013)
Review of Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy, Brian Maxson (2013)
Review of Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography, Brian Maxson (2013)
Tester: A Story of Class, Academia, Punk Rock, and Generation X, Brian Maxson (2013)
“This Sort of Men”: The Vernacular and the Humanist Movement in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Maxson (2013)
Establishing Independence: Leonardo Bruni's History of the Florentine People and Ritual in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Maxson (2012)
The Many Shades of Praise: Politics and Panegyrics in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Diplomacy, Brian Maxson (2011)
Histories of Florence: A Review of Seven Recent Publications on Renaissance Florence, Brian Maxson (2010)
Kings and Tyrants: Leonardo Bruni's translation of Xenophon's "Hiero", Brian Maxson (2010)
Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich, Stephen G. Fritz
The Miss America Pageant: Pluralism, Femininity, and Cinderella All in One, Elwood Watson and Darcy Martin (2000)
Guess What Came to American Politics? - Contemporary Black Conservatism, Elwood Watson (1998)
Books
Florence in the Early Modern World: New Perspectives and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more Florence in the Early Modern World: New Perspectives, Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Maxson
Southern Communities: Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South, Steven Nash and Bruce E. Stewart
The Secret History of RDX: The Super-Explosive that Helped Win World War II, Colin F. Baxter
The First Soldier: Hitler as Military Leader, Stephen G. Fritz
Languages of Power in Italy, 1300-1600, Daniel Bornstein, Laura Guffuri, and Brian Jeffrey Maxson
New England Federalists: Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America, Dinah Mayo-Bobee
Violence Against Black Bodies: An Intersectional Analysis of How Black Lives Continue to Matter, Sandra E. Weissinger, Dwayne A. Mack, and Elwood Watson
The Role of Religion in Ancient Civilizations: Select Readings, Kim Woodring
Brother Bill: President Clinton and the Politics of Race and Class, Daryl A. Carter
Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains, Steven E. Nash
A Short Guide to Writing about History, Richard Marius and Melvin E. Page
After Civic Humanism: Learning and Politics in Renaissance Italy, Brian J. Maxson and Nicholas Scott Baker
Healing the African Body: British Medicine in West Africa, 1800-1860, John Rankin
Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era, Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers
The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers For Old Questions About The Civil War-Era North, Andrew L. Slap
This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old Questions About the Civil War-Era North, Andrew L. Slap and Michael T. Smith
The Dreaded Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry : Marauding Mountain Men, Melanie Storie
Overcoming Adversity in Academia: Stories from Generation X Faculty, Elwood Watson
Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East, Stephen Fritz
Performing American Masculinities: The 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture, Elwood Watson and Marc E. Shaw
The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900–1950, Tom Lee
Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath, Andrew L. Slap
The Oprah Phenomenon, Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson
The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era, Andreq L. Slap
There She Is, Miss America: The Politics of Sex, Beauty, and Race in America’s Most Famous Pageant, Elwood Watson and Darcy Martin
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II, Stephen G. Fritz
Book Contributions
The Myth of the Renaissance Bubble: International Culture and Regional Politics in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian J. Maxson (2020)
Renaissance Florence in the Late Medieval World, Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson (2019)
Where in the World was Renaissance Florence?, Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson (2019)
Diplomatic Oratory, Brian Jeffrey Maxson (2017)
Florence, Pius II, and Jacopo Piccinino in 1458: A Case-Study of Gifts and Status in Diplomacy, Brian Jeffrey Maxson (2017)
British and African Health in the Anti-Slave-Trade Squadron, John Rankin (2017)
The Fires of Racial Discontent Are Still Burning! Intensely!, Elwood Watson (2017)
The Birth of a New Political Era, Daryl A. Carter (2016)
"No Regular Marriage": African American Veterans and Marriage Practices After Emancipation, Andrew L. Slap (2013)
Counter Revolutionary Programs: Social Catholicism and the Cristeros, Daniel Newcomer (2011)
Obama's Masculinities: A Landscape of Essential Contradictions, Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson (2011)
The Lost Cause That Wasn't: East Tennessee and the Myth of Unionist Appalachia, Tom Lee (2010)
The Other War Was But the Beginning: The Politics of Loyalty in Western North Carolina, 1865-1867, Steven E. Nash (2010)
A New Frontier: Historians, Appalachian History, and the Aftermath of the Civil War, Andrew L. Slap (2010)
Editorials
Introduction, Sandra E. Weissinger, Dwayne A. Mack, and Elwood Watson (2017)
Introduction: New Answers for Old Questions About the Civil War–Era North, Andrew L. Slap (2013)
Introduction: From Seinfeld to Obama: Millennial Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture, Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson (2011)
Introduction: Oprah Winfrey as Subject and Spectacle, Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson (2007)
Introduction, Elwood Watson and Darcy Martin (2004)
Encyclopedia Articles
Leonardo Bruni, Brian Jeffrey Maxson (2019)
Ermolao Barbaro, Brian Jeffrey Maxson (2018)
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Brian Jeffrey Maxson (2018)
The Great Schism, Brian Jeffrey Maxson (2018)
Hans Baron, Brian Jeffrey Maxson (2017)
Civic Humanism, Brian Jeffrey Maxson (2016)
Notes
Guerrilla Fighters and War Crimes: A Roundtable Discussion of Civil War Appalachia, Merritt R. Blakeslee, John C. Inscoe, Brian D. McKnight, Kenneth W. Noe, Jonathan Sarris, and Melanie Storie (2020)
Other
Reviews of Il greco a Firenze e Pier Vettori (1499–1585), by Davide Baldi; La nascita del Rinascimento a Firenze, by Anna Canonica-Sawina., Brian Maxson (2016)
Review of Neo-Latin and the Humanities: Essays in Honour of Charles E. Fantazzi, ed. by Luc Deitz, Timothy Kircher, and Jonathan Reid., Brian Maxson (2015)
Review of The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticaries, Brian Maxson (2015)
Review of The Renaissance and Ottoman World, edited by Anna Contadini and Claire Norton, Brian Maxson (2015)
Reviews of Plague and Pleasure: The Renaissance World of Pius II by Arthur White and Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance by Michael Knapton, John Law, and Alison Smith., Brian Maxson (2015)
Review of Entering a Clerical Career at the Roman Curia, 1458–1471 by Kirsi Salonen and Jusi Hanska, Brian Maxson (2014)
Review of Humanism in Fifteenth-Century Europe., Brian Maxson (2014)
Review of Notable Men and Women of Our Time, Brian Maxson (2014)
Review of Reviving the Eternal City: Rome and the Papal Court, 1420-1447 by Elizabeth McCahill, Brian Maxson (2014)
The Depths of Venice: A Double Review of "Paolina's Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice" by Larry Wolff and "Venice: A New History" by Thomas F. Madden, Brian Maxson (2014)
Review of A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620, Brian Maxson (2013)
Review of Angelo Poliziano’s Lamia: Text, Translation, and Introductory Studies, Brian Maxson (2013)
Review of Contesting the Renaissance by William Caferro, Brian Maxson (2013)
Review of Marriage in Premodern Europe: Italy and Beyond, Brian Maxson (2013)