Reviews
Review in Catholic Biblical Quarterly:
“In sum, F.’s exemplary reader-friendly work of critical biblical scholarship respects traditional approaches in demonstrating that pluralism, not singularity, better explains the origins of the Torah, its conflicting teachings, and the multiplicity of traditions that molded Jewish belief and practice from antiquity to the present.”
Review in California History:
“Cairns’s crisp, at times graphic, and often inspiring writing is grounded in copious primary and secondary sources. While she cited numerous up-to-date monographs in her bibliography, I was particularly impressed with the twenty manuscript collections she lists that are housed in universities throughout California and at Smith College in Massachusetts. Additionally, Cairns made excellent use of newspaper sources and pertinent websites. I strongly recommend At Home in the World for scholars, public officials, journalists, students, and environmentalists alike. This is a first-rate book.”
Review in Bikepacking:
“For me, this book provided an antidote to the trapped feelings that grow out of the overwhelming grind of balancing work, parenting, and winter. I needed to hear the kind of hope that Wheels on Ice provided, badly . . . However often you ride bikes, you’ll find something beautiful in this 320-page collection. You’ll probably also find something inspiring. I certainly did, and when I finished reading, I pulled on my boots and went for a long ride.”
Review in Nevada Historical Quarterly:
“Today, the West faces an increasing number of wildfires and prolonged drought. As the book broaches these topics and others, Dant reveals their historical roots and highlights their relevancy of regional environmental history.”
Review in H-Environment:
“This book would serve as an excellent exploratory text for university courses on environmental history or the US West. . . . [T]his text serves an important purpose in the field of environmental history by connecting seminal texts in unique ways, tackling a huge topic in a way that is highly organized and enjoyable to read, and demonstrating why understanding the environmental history of the US West is as pressing now as ever.”
Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
Review in New Ohio Review:
“This collection has been called a secular prayer. Another of Harél’s strengths is the musicality of his language. These poems are lovely to recite and listen to. They could well be prayers of the people, to the people. However, I think of these poems more like trail markers. Each of us readers on our own embodied journeys, and these poems registering common points along the way to the truths that must dazzle gradually, lest we be overcome.”
Review in The Cortland Review:
“This tension, exhibited in bright, clean verse, makes for a sterling book. A good father and a bold poetic—in these cheerless days, who could ask for more? . . . I find the inner workings of Let Our Bodies terribly moving. For readers who are parents, they will find fellow feeling. For readers who are not parents (like myself) but have always found their own parents to be mysterious, this book provides a lucid possibility of what we might have known, had we opportunity. Harél offers the most generous version, of a father who labors to comfort his children without betraying his integrity. It is labor indeed.”
Review in Journal of American History:
“This book’s substantial strength lies in its detailed and lucid accounting of the myriad actors, organizations, institutions, laws, and court rulings that shaped the ERA’s fortunes in the period from 1920 to 1963, an era given less attention by historians.”
Review in H-Environment:
“In this rich, 351-page volume, conservation biologists Curtis Freese leverages his long-standing practical experience in the American Prairie-Russell Refuge region, a planned projected area located in the Northern Great Plains of Montana along the Missouri River. “
Review in H-War:
“With laudable primary research from French military and police archives, Bauer traces the formation and institution of state-operated intelligence agencies and the legal framework that governed them, primarily during the Third Republic.”
Review in Journal of Modern History:
“Any student of the Dreyfus Affair quickly confronts the obscure bureaucracy of French counter espionage. Just what were the Deuxième Bureau and the Statistical Section, and how did they operate? In Marianne Is Watching, Deborah Bauer has provided a valuable service in her cogent and well-researched institutional and cultural history of intelligence during the early years of the French Third Republic (1870–1914). Given that the sources that exist sometimes include instructions to burn after reading and other intentional obfuscations regarding reporting lines, budgets, and basic operations, Bauer has never the less pieced together a compelling historical narrative that complements and enhances histories of the French Third Republic and of modern intelligence.”
Review in H-Sci-Med-Tech:
“To capture the perspective of Hap and Clara Burke, the two authors expertly delve into an impressive range of sources. These include archival collections, correspondences, letters, diaries, Episcopalian newsletters, and family records and papers. While the emphasis remains on the Burkes, one discerns the self-activity of Alaska Native people throughout the narrative. Overall, this is a book that will appeal not only to scholars of Alaska and the American West but also to those who seek a greater understanding of the role Christian missionaries played in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. It is a strikingly balanced consideration of missionary work and successfully elevates Hap and Clara Burke to a central location in the history of Alaska’s territorial days.”
Borrowing From Our Foremothers
Review in H-Material-Culture:
“An accessibly written and concise introduction to many important actors and events in the long history of the women’s movement, this work will be most useful to scholars of US women’s history interested in bringing material culture into their teaching; individual chapters might be easily assigned as stand-alone works in many classroom settings.”
Review in Gerweck Radio:
“In Charlie Murphy, the author writes extensively about the fallouts that caused irreparable damage to Murphy’s reputation with his fellow owners. Cannon does an outstanding job detailing Murphy’s fight with the federal league, ticket snafus, and his friction with National League President Harry Pulliam. By age forty-six, Murphy was out of organized baseball. This is a fabulous work on an often forgotten baseball magnate.”
Review in Journal of Modern History:
“A strength of Heroic Hearts is that it engages with genuinely popular literature and images that have subsequently fallen out of favor, and it provides plenty of evidence for the pervasiveness of ideals of heroic celibacy and emancipatory martyrdom in early nineteenth-century French culture.”
Author Interviews
Interview in the Rice Thresher
Interview in Faculti
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